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verb

Crosscut v. t. (past & past part. crosscut; pres. part. crosscutting) To cut across or through; to intersect.

noun

Crosscut n.

A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.

(Mining) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.

Crosscut saw.

(a)

A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise.

(b)

A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.

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Etymology of 'Crosscut'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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