The result was that the one claw, by which the crab was then hanging, was broken off. Crabs’ claws are easily broken, and it does not seem to hurt the creature. There is a saying that crabs’ claws will grow back on again, but I am not certain of this. I have caught a great many crabs with only one claw--large crabs, too--and it seems to me that if they were going to grow a new claw, in place of the one they have lost, a little claw would have started growing. And this I have never seen.