'Crosscut' definitions:
Definition of 'crosscut'
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Definition of 'Crosscut'
From: GCIDE
- Crosscut \Cross"cut`\ (-k[u^]t`), v. t. To cut across or through; to intersect. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crosscut'
From: GCIDE
- Crosscut \Cross"cut`\, n.
- 1. A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mining) 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. [1913 Webster]