A crab is any of various crustaceans with four pairs of legs, a pair of pincers, a flattish shell, and a short, broad abdomen folded under its thorax. Several similar animals, such as the crab louse, or the hermit crab[?], are also called crabs.
A crab is any of various machines used to hoist heavy objects.
... he was a Christian and possibly bishop of Croton. In approximately 580, he wrote "De origine actibusque Getarum[?]" (The origin and deeds of the Goths), "De breviatione ...