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overlander (iou)



overlander noun. M19.
[from (the same root as) OVERLAND verb + -ER1.]
A person who journeyed from one part of Australia to another (obsolete exc. Hist.); a person who drives livestock overland; slang a tramp. Austral. M19.
b. A migrant. obsolete exc. N. Amer. History. M19.
gen. A traveller taking a long overland route to a country. M20.