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overland
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Wiktionary
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a. by or across land, especially of travel adv. Over, across, or by land. n. (context travel English) a trip by land between the UK and the Indian Sub-continent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.
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Overland is an Australian literary and cultural magazine . It was established in 1954, under the auspices of the Realist Writers Group in Melbourne, Australia , with Stephen Murray-Smith as the first editor-in-chief . It has been edited by: • Barrett Reid ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Overland \O"ver*land`\, adv. By, upon, or across, land.
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Population (2000): 16838 Housing Units (2000): 7446 Land area (2000): 4.381716 sq. miles (11.348593 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.017805 sq. miles (0.046116 sq. km) Total area (2000): 4.399521 sq. miles (11.394709 sq. km) FIPS code: 55550 Located within: ...
WordNet
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adj. traveling or passing over land; "an overland journey"; "the overland route used by Marco Polo"
Usage examples of overland.
There sailed a grand brontosaur, like an arrogant Titanic, headed for unseen collisions with flesh, time, weather, and bergs headed south overland in an Age of Ice.
They travelled overland to Mystic, Quebec, where Mamo had a cousin, the only person she knew from the old country.
They entered the river, possibly the Cunene or the Orange, journeyed up it to the source, and from there sent their metallurgists overland to discover the ancient mines of Manica - and who knows but they discovered the diamonds in the gravel of the lakes and rivers, and certainly they would have hunted the vast herds of elephant that roamed the land.
Faced with the prospect of being marooned for weeks while repairs were made, Adams inquired about proceeding overland.
This would deny the invaders easy access to the Anchors and their master computers and force them to come out overland.
September 26, steers his canoes up the shallow Assiniboine far as what is now known as Portage La Prairie, where a trail leads overland to the Saskatchewan and so down to the English traders of Hudson Bay.
While some of the spices and eastern commodities were brought overland by caravan from Ormuz or Bassora, the greater part came by water to Jiddah.
Overland Mail and Express Company, joining Boise with cities to the north and east, south and west.
Tony could envision them walking along, Masters and Overland in front, Braker and Yates behind, making their slow way to the cave, Overland dreading what he was to find there.
Through a blur, he saw Braker, Yates, Masters and Overland, standing about thirty feet distant from the cave, silent, speechless, staring at the skeleton.
Tony could envisage them walking along, Masters and Overland in front, Braker and Yates behind, making their slow way to the cave, Overland dreading what he was to find there.
Their overland journey would take them as far south as Brindisi, Italy, where they were to board a second ship, which would take them to Alexandria, where again they would pick up a train.
Some of his army would meanwhile have marched overland from Finnmark, Wendland, and the troll homes east of these.
The Wickan flees overland, chained with refugees by the thousandthey beg his protection even as they lap his blood.
Maricourt Le Moyne held the newly captured forts on the south shore of James Bay till Iberville came back overland in 1687.