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Crosscut   Listen
noun
Crosscut  n.  
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.





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"Crosscut" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rusty back down. I'm no taller than he is, but I outweigh him about twenty pounds. I started working in the woods when we still felled trees with axes and misery whips—crosscut saws to the Outsiders. "I'll go get him," I said. "You're still mad about the show, and you wouldn't be able to get him this far without mussing ...
— Trees Are Where You Find Them • Arthur Dekker Savage
... he said at last. "Physical activity is one of the manifestations of mental, moral, and even physical shock and injury. I've seen a man with a bullet in him run a half-mile—anywhere; I've seen a man ripped up by a crosscut-saw hold himself together, and walk—anywhere—till he dropped. Physical and nervous activity is one of the forms which shattered force takes. I expect that your 'M'sieu' Jean Jacques' has been busier this last ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker


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


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