overlanding

English

Verb

overlanding

1. present participle and gerund of overland

Noun

overlanding (uncountable)

1. The practice of travelling overland, or moving stock overland.
2. Having not taken air or water craft for any significant portion of the distance travelled.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 219:

     "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.