crosscut
- n a diagonal path
- n a route shorter than the usual one
- v cut using a diagonal line
- He rallied 30 staffers, borrowed axes and crosscut saws, led his band into a stand of timber.
- Expertly crosscut with Wade's life is a series of chapters called "Evidence" into which O'Brien throws psychological theories, passages of presidential biography, even accounts of .
- After 14 hours of fire fighting, the score stood: 90 men with crosscut saws, 320 snags; six men with power saws, 220 snags.