Definition of "crosscut" [cross•cut]

• To cut or run across or through. (verb-transitive)
• To cut using a crosscut saw. (verb-transitive)
• To interweave (two separate, usually concurrent scenes) in a film. (verb-transitive)
• To use the cinematic technique of crosscutting. (verb-intransitive)
• Constructed or used for cutting crosswise: crosscut teeth on a saw. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In testing a new lamp for miners, he crept into a "crosscut" of the mine, lamp in hand, and continued there so long and persistently that two men rushed in and drew him out by the feet, the gases having overcome him."
• "A few feet from the door of the resort is the Cascade Village Lift which accesses the rest of Vail by a crosscut trail, Post Road."
• "But when I was 17, 16, my father and I cut wood all day long, and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood, and when I walked in the back door late that afternoon, I was singing ..."