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Crosscut

verb
(past & past part. crosscut; pres. part. crosscutting)
1.
Cut using a diagonal line.  Synonym: cut across.
noun
1.
A diagonal path.
2.
A route shorter than the usual one.  Synonyms: cutoff, shortcut.



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"Crosscut" Quotes from Famous Books



... this incidental light upon the ways of his fellow working-men he learned properly how to swing an axe; he grew accustomed to dragging all day on the end of a seven-foot crosscut saw, to lift and strain with a cant hook. The hardening process, begun at Lone Moose, continued unceasingly. If mere physical hardihood had been his end, he could easily have passed for a finished product. He could ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... what you mean by a Goth; but I do know, if I could get a crosscut saw long enough to cut that tree, I would not let it stand there long; for you see it is mighty straight in the grain, and would ...
— Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West - The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) • Samuel Strickland



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