crosscut

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)
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cross=cut

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun crosscut has 2 senses

Verb crosscut has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

crosscutv. t. 
     To cut across or through; to intersect.  [1913 Webster]
crosscutn. 
  •  A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.  [1913 Webster]
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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