overland
/ˈəʊvəland
/ /ˌəʊvəˈland /adjective & adverb
By land: [as adjective]: an overland trade route [as adverb]: she journeyed overland...
- In the Middle Ages there used to be something called the Silk Road, which was an overland trade route that ran from the Atlantic shores of Morocco to the Great Wall of China.
- Burma also represented a possible overland trade route to China.
- It first prospered as a stop at the edge of a desert stretch of The Silk Road, the ancient overland trade route between China and Europe.
verb [no object, with adverbial of direction]
1Travel a long distance over land: they left the ship and overlanded to Coolgardie...
- Travel is now relatively safe here, and has become increasingly popular as overlanding in parts of the Middle East, Asia and Africa has become less so.
1.1 [with object and adverbial of direction] Australian /NZ historical Drive (livestock) over a long distance: 100,000 cattle were overlanded out of the Territory annually...
- He soon realised where some good money could be made and started overlanding cattle and sheep from New South Wales to South Australia.
- During 1870 some 3000 sheep from the Lake Hope Area in South Australia were overlanded to the Northern Territory, for the men working on the line at Roper River, by Ralph and John Milner.
- From there he eventually became involved in the pastoral industry and overlanded his sheep to South Australia.
Derivatives
overlander
- Many guests are overlanders en route to Mauritania and, ultimately, South Africa.
- During his life he had been a runaway at fifteen, officer, whaler, overlander, hotelier and pastoralist.
- Emigrant John Hackney's complaints along the Platte road in 1864 remind us how overlanders had devastated the great valley's timber and forage beds.