Crosscut
Crosscut (-kut`) , transitive verb
To cut across or through; to intersect.
Crosscut , 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.
Collocations (1)
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.