Researchers discovered that after having the lobster's larger claw, the crusher claw, clamp down on a load cell, a pressure-measuring device. This claw looks like it has molars because it's used to break up anything hard like crabs, clams, mussels.
[sic] is an abbreviation for âsic erat scriptumâ which is Latin for âthus it had been writtenâ, meaning that the quote prior was transcribed as it was found in the original source, complete with errors, coloquialisms etc. 1  Belaon March 31, 2015 1:58 am.
Sic is the funny little word that lurks within brackets and stands beside spelling or grammar errors. Itâs been doing so since the middle of the nineteenth century, and while itâs regularly seen today, people still wonder about its meaning and how to define it.