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▪ I. † ˈoverˌlander1 Obs.
[app. a. Du. Overlander = Ger. Oberländer, i.e. a dweller in the Oberland or upper country.]
A dweller in the uplands of a country, a highlander; spec. one dwelling in the higher lands of Germany, as opposed to a Netherlander or Low German.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 17 King Maximiliaen assembled a company of Almaynes and Overlanders. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions i. iv. 38 Two countreies there ware of that name [Ethiope], Ouerlanders, and Netherlanders. 1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. x. (1628) 315 The Germans or ouerlanders.
▪ II. overˈlander2
[f. overland v.]
1. a. Australia and N.Z. One who journeyed overland from one colony or capital to another (obs. exc. Hist.); spec. one taking cattle from one colony to another or over a long distance. Also slang, a sundowner, a tramp.
1841G. Grey Jrnls. Two Expeditions of Discovery ii. 183 The Overlanders are nearly all men in the pride of youth, whose occupation is to convey large herds of stock from market to market and from colony to colony. 1843W. Pridden Australia 335 (Morris) The class of men called Overlanders must not be omitted. Their occupation is to convey stock from market to market, and from one colony to another. 1848C. Sturt Centr. Australia I. 45 Conflicts between the natives and overlanders. 1852Lyttleton Times (N.Z.) 27 Mar., Mr. A. Clifford has succeeded in driving about 1500 ewes from the Wairau district... Two other parties of ‘over-landers’ are reported to be close on his heels. 1877M. Clarke Sch. Hist. Australia 60 An expedition was planned with the purpose of reaching Western Port. Thus began the First Overlanders. 1889‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xii, Puts 'em in mind of Hawdon and Evelyn Sturt in the old overlander days. 1898Morris Austral Eng. 333/1 Overlander... (2) A slang name for a Sundowner. 1907A. Searcy In Austral. Tropics 125 If a crowd of over⁓landers and backblockers happened to be present, things would be made lively. 1933L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 11 Nov. 15/7 Overlander, an Australian word for a man driving sheep or cattle a long distance. It was sometimes used in Canterbury in the early days. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 52 Overlander, a traveller. (2) One who makes long expeditions from one State to another with stock. (3) A settler from another State. (4) A drover. (5) A sundowner. 1967Woman's Day (Austral.) 27 Feb. 10/3 Now in her early sixties, she still lives her life with all the zest of her overlander days.
b. N. Amer. One who moves from one part of the country to another; a migrant. Obs. exc. Hist.
1857Hutching's Mag. Mar. 398/1 Reader, if you have never been an over-lander, I will tell you a little about camp life. 1916A. C. Laut Cariboo Trail 55 Some of the Overlanders had narrowly escaped a massacre. 1950B. Hutchison Fraser 88 The most remarkable immigrants of all deserve to be remembered—the Overlanders of '62, the men..who walked to Cariboo across the Rocky Mountains. 1963Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Oct. 112/3 Among those who heard the call of ‘Gold in the Cariboo!’ were the Over⁓landers. 1968E. Russenholt Heart of Continent iii. vii. 116 This summer [sc. 1859], three parties of ‘Overlanders’, some 60 in all, leave from Assiniboia for the Cariboo.
2. In general use: one who travels overland to a country which can also be reached by sea or air; one who travels a long distance overland.
1953J. Packer Apes & Ivory xxiii. 240 There were many ‘overlanders’ after the war, when it was impossible to get a sea-passage to Southern Africa. 1960Guardian 22 Nov. 7/5 Everywhere beyond Austria the overlander will attract..the attentions of the idle bystander. 1974Country Life 26 Dec. 2008/1 The intrepid long-distance overlander of today. |