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• Switzerland is landlocked and obviously will never be a great sea power and must always trade overland.From the entry landlocked
• This strict sense of telegraph developed from French usage for Napoleon's overland semaphore network but rather arbitrarily excludes similar Chinese and other signalling networks.From the entry telegraph
• Another beaver trapper and leader of an overland party, Ewing Young, also tried his hand at ottering.2021, Ogden Adele, The California Sea Otter Trade 1784-1848, page 110. From the entry ottering
• Boats, too, could be dragged overland, short-cutting the voyage from the Clyde to the Western Isles.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 372, about Tarbert, Kintyre. From the entry short-cut
• Romans, cursing in full armour, had to fight and footslog two thousand miles overland to Britain.1967, John David Stewart, Gibraltar: The Keystone. From the entry footslog
• More reliable chronicles, however, have recorded his trip overland from Hangchow to Kuei-chou.1963, “Introduction”, in Wing-tsit Chan, transl., Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-ming…. From the entry Hangchow
• About two-thirds of the immigrants enter Manchuria by sea and a third come overland.1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 222. From the entry Chefoo
• But take it all in all, the overland trail was a trial by fire.1918, Stewart Edward White, chapter 5, in The Forty-Niners. From the entry trial by fire
• Here I paid off my hardy boatmen, and prepared for my overland journey to Ch'êng-tu.1912, Esther Singleton, editor, China As Described by Great Writers, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., page 184. From the entry Ichang
• The major cost to construct the overland flow fields was the earthwash to modify the existing flat areas to sloped fields.1991, Harry L. Bush, Earl Abraham Myers, Lawrence J. Fleis, Stephen Poloncsik (authors), United States, Environmental Protection Agency…. From the entry earthwash
• Our troops also can reach Ch’eng-te by an overland route.1989, Dolores Zen, transl., Last Chance in Manchuria, Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80. From the entry Ch'eng-te
• My four months on the desert road to Turkestan were the first part of a journey overland from Peking to India.1929, Owen Lattimore, “Preface”, in The Desert Road To Turkestan, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page vii. From the entry Chuguchak
• The taxes being heavier here than on the new route overland via Lai-fêng-hsien, the latter has superseded that viâ Shasi .[1904, Decennial Reports on the Trade, Industries, Etc. of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on Conditions and Development of the…. From the entry Lai-feng
• They took a dhow from Mombasa bound for Aden and planned to take a larger vessel to Suez and then overland to Cairo.2011, J. W. Heldring, The Killing of Dr. Albrecht Roscher, Xlibris, page 109. From the entry dhow
• For Yen Hsüeh-mei was to take a steamboat downstream to Feng-chieh, where Tseng Shao-hua would meet her and escort her overland to Lao-ho-k'ou.1974, Timothy A. Ross, Chiang Kuei, New York: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59. From the entry Feng-chieh
• While Liu Yü-hsi traveled southeastward overland, Liu Tsung-yüan journeyed southwestward through Yung-chou, his former place of exile, and Kuei-chou (modern Kweilin) to Liu-chou.1973, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., Life and Works (Liu Tsung-yüan), New York: Twayne Publishers, page 39. From the entry Kweilin
• Linyi rested on control of two key resources: strategic harbours for ports of call and the aromatic forests of the interior liked by well-established overland trails.2024, Li Tana, “‘THE Harbour and THE Path of All Countries’ Linyi, 200–700 CE”, in A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Times to the…. From the entry Linyi
• Overlanded cargo may be further defined as cargo which has been discharged at a port for which it was not intended according to the ship's manifest.2014, Peter Brodie, Commercial Shipping Handbook, third edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 280. From the entry overlanded
• A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 269. From the entry tabor
• He advocated a total restructuring of the Allied offensive so that instead of an overland advance, it would seize airheads and leapfrog forward by air to Hanoi, in Indochina.2007, David Isby, “CBI 1942–44”, in C-47/R4D Skytrain Units of the Pacific and CBI (Osprey Combat Aircraft; 66), Oxford, Oxfordshire…. From the entry airhead
• Venice also needed alum for trade, since it was the point of departure for overland transportation of alum to southern Germany and its cloth-manufacturing Free Cities.1991, Felix Gilbert, The Pope, His Banker, and Venice, page 80. From the entry alum
• We will pay off our junks at Patung and will travel in Chairs overland into the North Eastern section of Szechwan which is the westernmost province of China.1941, Emil S. Fischer, Travels in China 1894-1940, volume I, Tientsin: Tientsin Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 8. From the entry Patung
• Those arriving by boat come from Tsingtao, Chefoo, or Tientsin to Dairen or Yingkow, while those coming overland travel on the Peiping-Liaoning Railway or journey on foot.1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 222. From the entry Chefoo
• American built planes and engines penetrated into the Alaskan wilderness at a time when such an overland flight was a marvel of ground organization and daring in the air.1925 April, Will H. Hays, “Aerial Navigation: A Forceful Aid in Peaceful Commerce”, in Commerce Journal, volume 5, number 5, page 5. From the entry globe
• I followed up the Ton-ho valley as far as Chu-shan, where I met Captain Mahon, and thence travelled along the overland trade route to Hing-an-Fu, on the Han river.1905, C. C. Manifold, “The Problem of the Upper Yang-tze Provinces and their Communications”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 25…. From the entry Chu-shan
• That flight arrived just days after China said that it would close, effective Monday, its last overland crossing at Suifenhe, a small city across the border from Russia’s Far East.2020 April 13, “Britain Is Expected to Extend Coronavirus Lockdown: Live Coverage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Suifenhe
• The most prominent overland path through the area was the Buffalo Trace, a cluster of trails running from the prairies of Illinois to salt licks in northern and central Kentucky.2016 March 1, Ashley Slavey, Megan Simms, Wes Cunningham, Eric Brumfield, Katy Morrison, “Buffalo Trace”, in Discover Indiana, archived…. From the entry Buffalo Trace

Meaning of overland

1. adjective By or across land.
2. adverb Over, across, or by land.
3. noun A trip by land between the UK and the Indian subcontinent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.

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How do you use overland in a sentence?

Overland is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “Let's take the overland route.”

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“Let's take the overland route.”

What does overland mean?

Overland means by or across land.