overland

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By a short cut overland, which is not so level, the distance is only about thirty miles, but our Eskimos chose the level course, as it is doubtful whether their excuses for dogs could have hauled the komatik over the hills on the short cut.

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  1. adjective Accomplished, traversing, or passing over the land instead of the ocean: an overland journey; an overland route.
  2. adverb By way of land: traveled overland to the ranch.

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  • The drugs are smuggled to Europe (4) by shipping container, overland, airfreight or on commercial passenger flights using "mules" via West and East Africa. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • Going overland is the greatest thing we found to do. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • The other part was to go overland, and it was an open question which of them would suffer the more from the hot summer sun. —  Ahead of the Army
  • Still we could not but feel overwhelmed with sadness at the incident We were now doubly anxious to get away from this cave, so we rapidly finished the discussion of our plan, and Jack arranged that he should accompany what may be termed the overland part of our expedition. —  The Gorilla Hunters
  • The overland, by rail through Europe and Siberia 2. —  Life and sport in China Second Edition
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/oʊvərˈlænd/
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