1769 Eng. Displayed 44/2 The tenures are copyhold-lands, over-lands, and reve-lands. Over-lands are subject to fines, but not to heriots, suits and service.

1801 Enclosure Commissioners of Cheddar Moor in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 388/2 By Overlands or Overland Tenements are to be understood all lands whether open or inclosed, which do not, nor at any time heretofore did belong to auster, or ancient tenements, and for which no right of common in the moors or on the hill have been allowed.

1885 T. S. Holmes Hist. Wookey ii. 53 Overland..I rather think that under that head was included such villein holdings as fell into the hands of the lord by way of escheat from time to time. These..would after a time be regranted to other villeins.

1894 Tablet 16 June 942 Lord Bute..inherited certain ancient feudal overlands in Glamorganshire.

a1903 W. F. Rose in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 388/2 ‘Overland’ refers to those portions of land on the edge of a common field, or on the boundary of a river or a manor. Hence the term was in time given to those strips in the common fields that fell in death from the copyhold tenants and here to be regarded for the half-year or year as demesne land to be cultivated for the lord by the customary tenants.

1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms W. Devonshire in Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 329 Overland farm, a parcel of land, without a house to it.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Overland, a roofless tenement.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Overland,..land having no farm-house upon it... Any piece of land let without farm buildings is called ‘a overland’.

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. x. 159 Lolleres lyuyng in sleuthe and ouere-londe [v.r. ouerlond] strykers.

1792 Misc. in Ann. Reg. 452 Observations on the Passage from India, commonly called Over Land. Note. This expression, though extremely incorrect, is warranted by general use.

1797 W. H. Tone Let. 25 Jan. in T. W. Tone Writings (2009) III. 9 I wrote to you by the overland dispatch which left this settlement the 1st inst[an]t.

1841 Niles' Reg. 6 Feb. 353/2 The news from China and India we have received by the overland mail.

1862 W. Fairbairn in Rep. 31st Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1861 p. lix That country [i.e. India] may be reached by the overland route in less than a month.

1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 Oct. 1/5 The northbound Southern Pacific overland express..was held up by robbers..but the robbers secured little booty.

1930 W. Banning & G. H. Banning Six Horses 146 One bought ‘overland hats’, ‘overland boots’, ‘overland coats’, ‘overland ponies’, ‘overland chickens’, ‘overland eggs’, to the tune or blast of a real overland horn.

1940 J. Colville Diary 9 Apr. in Fringes of Power (1985) 99 They will find it no difficult task to establish an overland line of communication with Bergen and Trondhjem.

1995 Daily Mail Holiday Action Summer 76/1 With many round-the-world fares you can arrange overland legs, allowing you to explore countries without having to double back on yourself.

1840 Miss Eden's Lett. 13 Mar. (1919) 320 The next overland may bring out a copy of William's book.

1862 Mrs. J. B. Speid Our Last Years in India iv. 79 Her Majesty's mail! What would England..say, could they witness the bi-monthly arrival of the overland here!

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It iv. 46 Fifty-six hours out from St. Joe—three hundred miles! Now that was stage-coaching on the great overland ten or twelve years ago.

1908 Daily Chron. 2 Mar. 10/7 (advt.) Portmanteau Trade.—Makers and Improvers wanted for bonnet case and overlands.

1995 Sunday Times (Nexis) 22 Jan. The ultimate in Asian overlands, a 29-week trek by truck from London to Bali.

1882 A. J. Boyd Old Colonials 9 As to droving, I have overlanded sheep and cattle.

1885 R. C. Praed Head Station (new ed.) 116 I can't imagine you overlanding cattle!

1916 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 729/1 Men live in the saddle..when ‘over~landing’ cattle.

1954 J. Cleary Climate of Courage 109 Right now they're overlanding all the cattle they can move out of the Kimberleys across to western Queensland.

2002 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 3 Aug. 76 Two months later, Charles Bonney overlanded the first mob of 10,000 sheep from Mungaboreena Station on the Murray to the Goulburn River in Victoria.

OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 15 Berað þa Cwenas hyra scypu ofer land on ða meras & þanon hergiað on ða Norðmen.

c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 24 His halȝum apostlæs þe þæs Hælendes æ ofer lond seowon.

a1275 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr. B.14.39) l. 99 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 137 Te tulue aposteles..eden mit im ouer londe.

a1275 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Trin. Cambr.) (1955) 114 (MED) Maist þu..faren ouer londe hwar so bet þi wille.

c1300 St. Matthew (Laud) 5 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 77 (MED) Ase ore louerd eode ouer lond, seint Matheu he saiz.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 7066 (MED) Roberd þis noble duc, as he wende ouerlond, A wel vair maide, as him þoȝte, In a tresche he vond.

c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. v. 249 Penitencia his pik he shulde pulsshe newe And lepe with hym ouer lond al his lyf tyme.

c1450 (c1385) G. Chaucer Complaint of Mars 103 He throweth on his helm of huge wyghte..Ful hevy was he to walken over lond [v.rr. ouer londe, ouyr lande, ouer lande, ouer þe londe].

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 235 Thus stuff our-land I fynde may nocht weill be; We mon ger bryng our wictaill be the se.

?c1588 Disc. Troubles in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) App. iii. 317 None of the Companies servauntes shuld be suffered to goe overland with letters.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. v. 8 I desire..A Conduct ouer Land, to Milford-Hauen. View more context for this quotation

1664 S. Pepys Diary 29 Oct. (1971) V. 309 That de Ruter is come over-land home.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia ii. v. 89 Both French and Dutch Jewellers coming over land..have made good Purchase by buying Jewels here, and carrying them into Europe to be cut and set.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 165 The account sent over-land by Pizarro.

1786 Ld. Cornwallis Let. 28 Dec. in Corr. (1859) I. 236 The packet that was coming to us overland..was cut off by the wild Arabs between Aleppo and Bussora.

1889 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xii I'll go back overland.

1913 W. Cather O Pioneers! iv. vi. 251 On Sunday morning the bishop was to drive overland to Sainte-Agnes from Hanover.

1976 P. Hill Hunters vii. 78 He..is..in Australia... He joined a party going overland in a converted London Transport bus.

2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 July g7/5 I spent most of last year in Africa, traveling overland from Cairo to Cape Town.