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.
Report Abuse. The sic in square brackets is an editorial marker. It's a note to the reader or the proofreader, saying that whatever comes before it is exactly how it appears in the source material. The word sic in Latin means something like thus or so. So, the notation can be read as meaning it is thus or it is so.