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Webster 1913 Edition
Crosscut
Cross′cutˊ
(-kŭtˊ)
, Verb.
T.
To cut across or through; to intersect.
Cross′cutˊ
,Noun.
1.
A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
2.
(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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Crosscut
CROSSCUT
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
crosscut
crosscut
English
Alternative forms
- cross-cut
Noun
crosscut (plural crosscuts)
- A crosswise cut
- A shortcut
- An instance of filmic crosscutting
- A crosscut saw
- (mining) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
Translations
A crosswise cut
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A shortcut
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Verb
crosscut (third-person singular simple present crosscuts, present participle crosscutting, simple past and past participle crosscut)
- To cut across something.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart, / Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious, / Croscuts the liuer with internall smart, / And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes in a film