† overlandern.1
Obsolete.
An inhabitant of the uplands of a country, a highlander; spec. an inhabitant of the uplands of Germany, as opposed to a Netherlander or Low German.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on high land
Highlandman1450
overlander1548
mountainer1577
mountaineer1599
highlander1614
mountainist1625
uplander1699
hillman1854
hill-woman1895
hillsider1898
tiersman1941
Montagnard1966
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xvii King Maximiliaen assembled a company of Almaynes & Ouerlanders.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. iv. 38 Two countreies there ware of that name [sc. Ethiope], Ouerlanders, and Netherlanders.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence x. 315 The Germans or ouerlanders.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
overlandern.2
/ˈəʊvəlandə/, U.S. /ˈoʊvərˌlændər/, Australian English /ˈoʊvəlændə/ 1.
a. Chiefly Australian. A person who drives livestock overland, esp. for long distances; (formerly) spec. one who drove stock from New South Wales to the colony of South Australia. Now chiefly historical.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > overland > specifically in Australia
overlander1841
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > herding of cattle > cowherd
cowherda1000
oxherd1281
geldherd1284
nowtherd1296
neatherd1301
drover1384
catcherc1400
caller?a1500
ox-boy1580
neatress1586
harrier1591
cowherdess1611
spurn-cow1614
neatherdess1648
cowgirl1753
herds-woman1818
oxman1820
ranchero1825
topsman1825
vaquero1826
herdsmaiden1829
overlander1841
cattle-herd1845
cowboy1849
buckaroo1852
stock-rider1862
pointer1869
night-herder1870
puncher1870
bull-puncher1872
outrider1872
cowpuncher1873
range man1875
cow-puncher1878
herd-boy1878
cow-girl1884
trail-herd1885
trail boss1890
nighthawk1903
point man1903
swing man1903
top hand1912
charro1926
waddy1927
cattle-puncher1928
cowpoke1928
paniolo1947
1841 G. Grey Jrnl. Two Exped. Discov. ii. 183 The Overlanders are nearly all men in the pride of youth, whose occupation is to convey large herds of stock from market to market and from colony to colony.
1852 Lyttelton (N.Z.) Times 27 Mar. Mr. A. Clifford has succeeded in driving about 1500 ewes from the Wairau district... Two other parties of ‘over-landers’ are reported to be close on his heels.
1882 J. Allen Hist. Austral. 180 Ever since the gentlemen known as ‘Overlanders’ began first to drive cattle, and then sheep, overland from the New South Wales side, South Australia has paid great attention to pastoral pursuits.
1900 Pastoral Times (Deniliquin, New S. Wales) 5 May 3/3 Look here, with three good overlanders, an' a couple of smart dogs like Two Up, there, I'd take a mob of cattle up the bloomin' pyramids.
1979 D. Lockwood My Old Mates & I 81 When I was an overlander I hated bull trains. I could see they were going to take my living from me.
2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Aug. 76 The daring men who drove the stock on these first epic cattle drives of the 1830s—sometimes walking weary, thirsty stock for months over thousands of kilometres of unexplored territory—were known as the ‘overlanders’.
b. Australian. A person who travels overland from one settlement or place to another. Also slang: a tramp, a ‘sundowner’. Now historical.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp
harlot?c1225
raikera1400
vacabond1404
vagrant1444
gangrela1450
briber?c1475
palliard1484
vagabondc1485
rogue1489
wavenger1493
hermit1495
gaberlunzie1508
knight of the field1508
loiterer1530
straggler1530
runagate1534
ruffler1535
hedge-creeper1548
Abraham man1567
cursitor1567
runner1567
walker1567
tinker1575
traveller1598
Tartar1602
stravagant1606
wagand1614
Circumcellion1623
meechera1625
hedge-bird1631
gaberlunzie man1649
tramp1664
stroller1681
jockey1685
bird of passage1717
randy1724
tramper1760
stalko1804
vagabondager1813
rintherout1814
piker1838
pikey1838
beachcomber1840
roadster1851
vagabondizer1860
roustabout1862
bum1864
migratory1866
potter1867
sundowner1868
vag1868
walkabout1872
transient1877
Murrumbidgee whaler1878
rouster1882
run-the-hedge1882
whaler1883
shaughraun1884
heather-cat1886
hobo1889
tussocker1889
gay cat1893
overlander1898
stake-man1899
stiff1899
bindle-stiff1900
dingbat1902
stew-bum1902
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
skipper1925
Strandlooper1927
knight of the road1928
hobohemian1936
plain turkey1955
scrub turkey1955
derro1963
jakey1988
crusty1990
1847 T. McCombie Austral. Sketches 68 The term Overland is not..confined to such alone as brought over stock; as, whoever arrives at a new settlement overland, is designated an Overlander.
1866 Adventures Ashore & Afloat (1887) 157 He was one of the very few amongst the ‘overlanders’ (as parties first coming from the older settlements were termed) who refrained from shooting down the aborigines for slight causes.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral. Eng. 333/1 Overlander, a slang name for a Sundowner.
1905 A. B. Paterson Old Bush Songs 120 Crying, ‘Mother, quick! take in the clothes, Here comes an overlander.’
1957 F. Clune Fortune Hunters 147 Beer bottles and lolly-water bottles, empty memorials to the thirsts of overlanders.
1996 Amer. Hist. Rev. 101 991 Clear of the gateway, overlanders left the stock trails to settle along the Murray's tributaries that originated in the southern highlands.
c. North American. A person who moves from one part of the country to another; a migrant. Now historical.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [noun]
migrator1767
Jimmy1845
trekker1851
rusher1856
overlander1857
migrant1864
migrationist1887
trekkie1888
in-migrant1942
1857 Hutching's Mag. Mar. 398/1 Reader, if you have never been an over-lander, I will tell you a little about camp life.
1916 A. C. Laut Cariboo Trail iv. 55 Some of the Overlanders had narrowly escaped a massacre.
1950 B. Hutchison Fraser 88 The most remarkable immigrants of all deserve to be remembered—the Overlanders of '62, the men..who walked to Cariboo across the Rocky Mountains.
1992 Amer. Hist. Illustr. Feb. 43/2 California's inflated economy required that everyone work who could, as forty-niner Luzena Wilson, an overlander..vigorously affirmed.
2. A person who travels to a country overland as opposed to by sea or air; one who engages in overland travel as a way of touring remote areas, esp. by motor vehicle.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > overland
overlander1953
1953 J. Packer Apes & Ivory xxiii. 240 There were many ‘overlanders’ after the war, when it was impossible to get a sea-passage to Southern Africa.
1974 Country Life 26 Dec. 2008/1 The intrepid long-distance overlander of today.
1991 Traveller Winter 8/3 Overlanders in Africa should be aware that there is no longer a campsite beside the Chinzombo Lodge in Zambia's Luangwa National Park.
3. Originally Australian. A motor vehicle equipped for rugged conditions.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > motor vehicle > for all types of terrain
all-terrain vehicle1956
overlander1957
ATV1969
Humvee1982
Hummer1983
1957 F. Clune Fortune Hunters 35 We pushed on another few miles and found an overlander with a trailer sand-bogged in another creek.
1965 L. Walker Other Girl 10 The car, a great fawn-coloured overlander thickly red with the desert dust, thundered round the curve.
2000 Independent (Nexis) 18 Mar. (Features section) 7 Any good travel agent should also be able to organise campervan hire for you... A two-to three-berth overlander in high season..costs £54 per day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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