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 a Latin word meaning thus, so, as such, or just as that.. And normally the word sic is written in square brackets. It basically means that the word quoted is written exactly as it was written, or spoken, instead of correcting the error. For example if I wrote The man through the ball.