Sand. quick gravel: quicksand. gravel of gold, golden gravel: see golden, adj. 2. Obsolete.

A bed or mass of quicksand (see sense 1b).

That sucks down, under water, into a whirlpool, etc. †sucking sand = quicksand, n.

Proper name of two large quicksands (Syrtis major and minor) off the northern coast of Africa; hence gen. a quicksand.

a bed of quicksand.

= Syrtis, n.

Of, relating to, or resembling Lake Serbonis, a shallow lagoon in north-eastern Egypt, variously described in antiquity as being surfaced with…

A quicksand.