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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

... time from the parent walls. This in turn led up and on to other breaks and splits and cuts, all open, all lifting to the upper world, and all as blind and dangerous to follow as any deathtrap that old Dame Nature ever devised. Here, at any crosscut, any debouching canyon, a man might turn to his undoing, might travel on and up and never reach those beckoning heights, seen clearly from some blind pocket he had wandered into, might never find his way back to the original canyon among the continuous cuts ...

— Tharon of Lost Valley • Vingie E. Roe

... them, came down from the ship by midmorning. With them came a grindstone, a couple of crosscut saws, and a lot of picks and shovels and axes, and cases of sheath knives and mess gear and miscellaneous trade goods, including a lot of the empty wine and whisky bottles that had been hoarded for ...

— Naudsonce • H. Beam Piper

Words linked to "Crosscut" : crosscut saw, crosscut handsaw, road, route, path, shortcut, cut, cutoff, cut across, itinerary