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Definition: Crosscut |
CrosscutAdjective1. Cut or used for cutting crosswise or across the grain; "a crosscut slice of beef"; "a crosscut saw". Noun1. A diagonal path. 2. A route shorter than the usual one. Verb1. Cut using a crosscut. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crosscut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. A small passageway driven at right angles to the main entry to connect it with a parallel entry or air course. b. A tunnel driven at an angle to the dip of the strata to connect different seams or workings c. A crosscut may be a coal drivage. See also:pillar-and-stal d. An underground passage directed across an orebody to test its width and value or from a shaft to reach the orebody. See also:level crosscut; cross e. A horizontal opening driven across the course of a vein or in general across the direction of the main workings. A connection from a shaft to a vein. Syn:cut-through f. In room-and-pillar mining, the piercing of the pillars at more or less regular intervals for the purpose of haulage and ventilation. Syn:breakthrough g. In general, any drift driven across between any two openings for any mining purpose. h. A borehole directed so as to cut through a rock strata or ore vein essentially at right angles to the dip and strike of the rock strata, a vein, or a related structure. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In woodworking, a cut made at (or near) a right angle to the direction of the grain of the workpiece.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crosscut."
Synonyms: CrosscutSynonyms: cutoff (n), shortcut (n), cut across (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Crosscut |
| English words defined with "crosscut": bimanual ♦ cut across ♦ two-handed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crosscut": back mine, bill cutter ♦ check curtain, cross conveyor, cross cutting ♦ face area, face equipment, false gate ♦ goose saw ♦ horizontal drive ♦ level crosscut, LOFT WORKER ♦ main crosscut, mold loft worker ♦ on long awn, on short awn ♦ pendulum saw, pillar split, pull drift ♦ STOCK CUTTER, stock-saw operator, swing saw, swinging crosscut saw ♦ transverse gallery, trim sawyer, turnhouse ♦ undercutting of old workings ♦ working face. (references) |
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Consumer Goods |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Two types of crosscut saws, made by the Henry Disston & Sons plant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Weathered wood grain" by Justin Wilder Commentary: "Crosscut of a tree stump." |
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Expressions using "crosscut": crosscut saw ♦ swinging crosscut saw. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crosscut saw | 20 |
crosscut sled | 18 |
crosscut shredder | 12 |
crosscut | 9 |
crosscut hardwoods | 8 |
crosscut man saw two | 6 |
crosscut plan sled | 3 |
crosscut jig | 3 |
crosscut record | 2 |
crosscut paper royal shredder | 2 |
antique crosscut saw | 2 |
crosscut royal shredder | 2 |
crosscut schwinn | 2 |
crosscut shredders | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crosscut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrugë diagonale, pres tërthorazi (transect), prerje tërthore. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отрязан напреко, пряк път (shortcut). (various references) | |
Danish | tvaergang vinkelret paa strygningen (cross-measure drift), tværsnit (cross section, cross sectional view, cross-section, cut away, cutting diameter, cutting diametre, sectional view, transversal section, transverse section), tværslag (cross cut), forbindelsestunnel. (various references) | |
Dutch | dwarssteengang (cross cut, cross-cut, cross-measure drift), dwarsdoorsnede (cross section, cross-section, cutting diameter, cutting diametre, end-grain section, transection, transversal section, transverse section). (various references) | |
Farsi | میان بر, اریب بریدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | poikkileikkaus (cross-section, transverse section). (various references) | |
French | coupe transversale (cross section, cross-section), bowette, bouveau de recoupe (cross-measure drift). (various references) | |
German | Schnittdurchmesser (cross-section, cutting diameter, cutting diametre), Schneiddurchmesser (cross-section, cutting diameter, cutting diametre), Querschlag (cross cut, cross-cut, cross-measure drift), Kreuzhieb. (various references) | |
Greek | κόπτων εγκαρσίωσ, εγκάρσια κοπή (cross-section, cutting diameter, cutting diametre, slicing), εγκάρσιο (cross-measure drift). (various references) | |
Italian | sega a pendolo (goose saw, pendulum saw, swing saw, swinging crosscut saw). (various references) | |
Manx | giarrey tessen (cross-section). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | osscutcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | corte transversal (dide view, profile), travessa (bystreet, course, dish, lane, platter, traverse). (various references) | |
Russian | квершлаг (cross heading), поперечный (cross, diametral, thwart, transversal, transverse, traverse). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | iskošen (sidelong, slant, slanting), bočni rez, bočan. (various references) | |
Spanish | cruzado (criss cross, cross, crossbred, crossed, cruciate, crusader, double breasted, mongrel), corte transversal (cross section), transversal (cross, lateral, transversal). (various references) | |
Swedish | tvärsnitt (cross section, cross-section). (various references) | |
Turkish | enine kesit (cross section, transversal section), enine kesen, enine (breadthwise, crosswise, in the beam, in width, transversal, transverse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crosscut": crosscuts, crosscutting, crosscuttings. (additional references) | |
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"Crosscut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cosycot, crosscom, crossout. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-o-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: stuccos, succors. | |
-2 letters: courts, crocus, crusts, custos, occurs, rousts, scours, scouts, stours, stucco, succor, tussor. | |
-3 letters: costs, court, crocs, cross, crust, curst, cusso, occur, ousts, roust, routs, rusts, scots, scour, scout, scuts, sorts, sorus, sours, stour, torcs, torus, tours, truss. | |
-4 letters: cors, coss, cost, cots, croc, crus, curs, curt, cuss, cuts, orcs, orts, ours. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-o-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: crosscuts, stuccoers. | |
+2 letters: constructs, coruscates, crosscourt. | |
+3 letters: conductress, crustaceous, scoutcrafts, stuccoworks. | |
+4 letters: constructors, coruscations, cotransduces, crosscurrent, crosscutting, deconstructs, reconstructs, subcontracts. | |
+5 letters: chiaroscurist, conductresses, constructions, consumeristic, cosurfactants, crosscurrents, crosscuttings, stercoraceous, streptococcus, superconducts. | |
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