Crossword clues for offa
offa
- Dyke-builder using a lot of lights etc
- Dyke-building king
- Tender, when speaking, for one for whom the earth moved?
- "...long walk ___ short pier"
- Old English dyke builder
- Old dyke builder, d. 796
- Mercia's dyke builder
- King of Mercia, who may have built a dyke
- King of Mercia, who built a dyke
- King of Mercia, d. 796, with a dyke named after him
- Easy as falling -- log
- " ... long walk ___ short pier!"
- " . . . ___ short pier!"
- ''Like water __ duck's back''
- "...___ short pier!"
- Easy as falling ___ log: 2 wds
- Anglo-Saxon king
- Medieval king
- Eighth-century Mercian king
- Mercian king known for dyke
- Meat product more than enough for this old ruler
- Court risk associated with railway
- Eighth-century king of Mercia
- King of Mercia who gave his name to a dyke
- King of Mercia with a dyke to his name
- Sound proposal for old king
- Historic leader disengaged from area
Wiktionary
prep. (context colloquial English) off of.
Wikipedia
Offa was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in July 796.
Offa may also refer to:
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Offa (name)
- Offa of Angel (fl. 5th century)
- Offa of Essex (fl. 700)
- Offa of Mercia
- the father of Æscwine of Essex (fl. late 5th century)
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(named for Offa of Mercia)
- Office for Fair Access, United Kingdom, promotes fair access to higher education
- Offa, Ivory Coast, a village in Lagunes District, Ivory Coast
- Offa, Kwara, a town in Nigeria
- Offa, Wrexham, a community in Wrexham County Borough
Offa is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Wolayita Zone, Offa is bordered on the south by the Gamo Gofa Zone, on the west by kindo Didaye, on the north by Kindo Koysha, on the northeast by Sodo Zuria, and on the east by Humbo. The administrative center of Offa is Gesuba. Western part of Offa was added to Kindo Didaye woreda.
According to a 2004 report, Offa had 22 kilometers of all-weather roads and 56 kilometers of dry-weather roads, for an average road density of 133 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers.
Prior to the Ethiopian 2005 General Elections, Amnesty International reports that a total of 38 Coalition for Unity and Democracy members were arrested in Offa between 11 and 17 February, and held for seven days on the accusation they held their campaign meeting without giving police 48 hours notice. Amnesty International included this incident as part of a series of government intimidation of opposition party activists.
Usage examples of "offa".
East Anglian nobility, who escaped into their own country, Offa, having extinguished the royal family, succeeded in his design of subduing that kingdom.
Carrying his hypocrisy still further, Offa, feigning to be directed by a vision from heaven, discovered at Verulam the relics of St Alban, the martyr, and endowed a magnificent monastery in that place.
That emperor being a great lover of learning and learned men, in an age very barren of that ornament, Offa, at his desire, sent him over Alcuin, a clergyman much celebrated for his knowledge, who received great honors from Charlemagne, and even became his preceptor in the sciences.
Kenulph was killed in an insurrection of the East Anglians, whose crown his predecessor, Offa, had usurped.
Brithric, king of Wessex, had married Eadburga, natural daughter of Offa, king of Mercia, a profligate woman, equally infamous for cruelty and for incontinence.
Not wanting to indulge in no sprint in that heat, Bill shot a heel offa his boot, and that brung him down squalling blue murder.
Kidd had throwed the loop offa his head and come for me with his mouth wide open, his ears laid back and his teeth and eyes flashing.
He done his best, but all he done was to knock some chunks offa the rocks with his heels.
When he turned to gallop off I jumped offa the wall and landed square on his back, but before I could so much as grab his mane he throwed me clean over the wall and I landed in a cluster of boulders and cactus and skun my shin.
He jest made a half-hearted attempt to bite me but all he done was to bite the buckle offa my gunbelt.
My bullet had hit the lock of his Winchester and mighty nigh jarred his hands offa him.
I riz up with a rock in my hand and bounced it offa the head of a feller which was fixing to shoot me, and he dropped his pistol and fell on top of it.
I then cut the rope and eased the hanged man down onto my saddle and got the noose offa his neck.
Not wanting to indulge in no sprinting in that heat, Bill shot a heel offa his boot, and that brung him down squalling blue murder.
I slapped it aside jest as he fired and the bullet missed me and taken a ear offa Jim Gordon.