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overlanding

overlanding is the present participle and gerund of overland.

Noun

overlanding (uncountable)

  1. The practice of travelling overland, or moving stock overland.
    • Is an overlanding trip trucking hell, or a good way to reach the parts that local buses don't get to?2006 March 11, Mark Eveleigh, “Africa made easy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. Having not taken air or water craft for any significant portion of the distance travelled.
    • "Overlanding," however, was a feat that was not to be accomplished without danger and, in some cases, loss of life. Some of the drovers on their way to Port Darwin found the body of a poor fellow near the Roper River.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 219

Meaning of overland

Verb

overland (third-person singular simple present overlands, present participle overlanding, simple past and past participle overlanded)

  1. (Australia, transitive) To transport (especially sheep or other farm animals) over land.
    • Not long after, in 1878, Nathaniel Buchanan overlanded cattle from Queensland to Glencoe and Daly River stations in the Northern Territory.2000, Ian Parsonson, The Australian Ark: A History of Domesticated Animals in Australia, Csiro, →ISBN, page 102
    Synonyms:
    drove
  2. (Australia, intransitive) 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.
    • I don't think any of them had done the backpacker thing and certainly hadn't overlanded through Africa before, as we had.2017 [2010], Pat Garrod, Bearback: The World Overland, paperback edition, Troubador, →ISBN

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Questions about overlanding

What does overlanding mean?
Overlanding means the practice of travelling overland, or moving stock overland.
What is overlanding the present participle and gerund of?
Overlanding is the present participle and gerund of overland.
What part of speech is overlanding?
Overlanding is a noun.

Words near overlanding in the dictionary

  1. overland
  2. Overland Park
  3. overlanded
  4. overlander
  5. overlanders
  6. overlanding
  7. overlands
  8. overlanguaged
  9. overlap
  10. overlap syndrome
  11. overlap syndromes

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