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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.