overland

Etymology

over + land

adj

1. by or across land, especially of travel

adv

1. 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, Jerome Horsey, manuscript reproduced in Edward Augustus Bond (ed.), Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century, T. Richards (1856), page 317
   The packet that was coming to us overland, and that left England in July, was cut off by the wild Arabs between Aleppo and Bussora. 1786, Earl Cornwallis, letter to Viscount Brome, reproduced in Charles Ross (ed.), Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis, volume 1, second edition, John Murray (1859), page 247
   It is unclear whether the Peshin sayyid traveled overland or by ship to Bombay from where he accompanied the goods by sea to Karachi or one of the smaller ports in Sind, then overland to Bela, Kelat, Qandahar, Kabul, and Bukhara. 2008, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Connecting Histories in Afghanistan, Stanford University Press, published 2011, page 57

noun

1. (travel) a trip by land between the UK and the Indian Sub-continent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.

verb

1. (transitive, Australia) to transport (especially sheep or other farm animals) over land
2. (intransitive, Australia) to travel across land
3. (intransitive) to go on a recreational expedition to a remote destination, often with the aid of an off-road vehicle