Crosscut /(-kŭt`)/

Cross·cut

Crosscut

v. t.
  1. To cut across or through; to intersect.

Crosscut

n.
  1. A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
  2. A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. (Mining)

Phrases & Compounds
Crosscut saw
A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise.