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- noun obsolete A
quicksand .
Etymologies
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See syrt.
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Examples
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Her life seemed to be in a terrible tangle -- more than that, in a syrtis, -- but I did not take a hand in further crushing her.
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916
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