Cross-cut

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crosscut \Cross"cut`\ (-k[u^]t`), v. t.
     To cut across or through; to intersect.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Crosscut \Cross"cut`\, n.
     1. A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
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     2. (Mining) A level driven across the course of a vein, or
        across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
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     {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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crosscut
       n 1: a diagonal path
       2: a route shorter than the usual one [syn: {shortcut}, {cutoff}]
       v : cut using a diagonal lines [syn: {cut across}]
       [also: {crosscutting}]