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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Crabbas
Gāst crabba
Cræftlicu endebyrdung
Rīce: Animalia
Stefn: Arthropoda
Understefn: Crustacea
Flocc: Malacostraca
Hād: Decapoda
Underscipe: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Linnaeus, 1758
Micelcynn
For þǣm steorran, sēo Crabba (steorra).

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Crabba (Atergatis floridus) æt Miċel Īeȝland, Hawaii

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.