Crabba

For þǣm steorran, sēo Crabba (steorra).

Þā crabban sindon tīenfōtlīċ sċilldēor þæs brāden cynnes Brachyura, þe habbaþ swīþe sċeortne tæġl ("Brachyura" is Grēcisc for "sċeort tæġl": brakhús = sċeort; ourá = tæġl). Hī libbaþ in ealre weorolde sǣm, and in fersċum wætere, and on lande, habbaþ twā clawe and sindon behelmed mid ūterbānum (Grēcisċ: exoskeletós).

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Sōþe crabban habbaþ tīen sċancan, þā fyrste habbaþ clawe, and sind ne for styrunge. On ealle ac feawe crabbas (bisenung, Raninoida), þæt hrif is under þǣm brēoste behȳden, in þǣm grōwenum tīde. Þā mūþdǣlas þāra crabbra sind be brādum maxillipedum besettod, and þæt fore þes brēosthelmes ne hæfþ lāngne nebb. 

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