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overland

verb 3
adjective 1
adverb 1
noun 1
forms 3

verb3

(Australia) To travel across land.
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To go on a recreational expedition to a remote destination, often with the aid of an off-road vehicle.
- I don't think any of them had done the backpacker thing and certainly hadn't overlanded through Africa before, as we had. — 2017
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(Australia) To transport (especially sheep or other farm animals) over land.
- Not long after, in 1878, Nathaniel Buchanan overlanded cattle from Queensland to Glencoe and Daly River stations in the Northern Territory. — 2000

adjective1

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By or across land.
- Let's take the overland route.

adverb1

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Over, across, or by land.
- To prevent this, he practised that none of the Companies servauntes shuld be suffered to goe overland with letters. — 1589

noun1

A trip by land between the UK and the Indian subcontinent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.

forms

overlanded · overlanding · overlands

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