crosscut

About 0.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A crosswise cut.
2. noun A shortcut.
3. noun An instance of filmic crosscutting.
4. noun A crosscut saw.
5. noun A tunnel or level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another through the country rock.
6. verb To cut across something. To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
7. verb To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
8. verb To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.

Similar words

cut shortcut cut across cutoff overlap intersect saw intrude cross span

Often followed by

saw the saws by and to with tunnel of

Word family

crosscuting crosscuts