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Kind of saw
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crosscut
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Wikipedia
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Crosscut may refer to: Crosscut.com , an online newspaper in Seattle Crosscut Peak , a mountain peak in Antarctica Crosscut Point , a rocky point in the South Sandwich Islands CrossCut Records , a German record company A type of saw cut, more commonly spelled ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A crosswise cut 2 A shortcut 3 An instance of filmic crosscutting 4 A crosscut saw 5 (context mining English) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. vb. 1 To cut across something. 2 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cut using a diagonal lines [syn: cut across ] [also: crosscutting ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crosscut \Cross"cut`\, n. A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road. (Mining) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. Crosscut saw . A saw, the teeth of which are so set as ...
Usage examples of crosscut.
But in Washington County, the crosscut saw was the main tool for logging, while for cutting fuelwood, the homemade bucksaw was mostly used.
The present writer bears the name of Brauxel at the moment and runs a mine which produces neither potash, iron, nor coal, yet employs, from one shift to the next, a hundred and thirty-four workers and office help in galleries and drifts, in stalls and crosscuts, in the payroll office and packing house.
The support bores narrowed once they reached bedrock, and each of them incorporated a squared-off crosscut a half-meter wider than the diameter of the lower bore.
The rectangular support shafts socketed into those crosscuts, for their cross-section was also greater than the diameter of the lower bores.
The chief subscribes to Cinema Confit, Pan and Scan, and Hollywood Honeys, Carl gets Media Zone, and I take Crosscut, Film Finger, and People.
Today, of course, doctors generally opt for the less disfiguring, more cosmetically appealing crosscut, one that disturbs fewer muscles and lies hid den beneath the bikini line.
He clamps the brace in the box vice, measures it against the original, and shortens it with the crosscut saw, then rasps and files it smooth.
If they'd been classified, the papers would have been disposed of properly in a burn bag or a crosscut shredder that would have converted them into powder.
Rosemary noted and commented on everything: the white linen slipcovers on the sofas, the mauve and turquoise tints of the lake as the sun sank, the tall oak candlestick on the porch, the moose head and crosscut saw over the mantel.
At first glance, you normally wouldn't notice much or any difference between a crosscut saw and a ripsaw, but in use the difference is huge.
That trail was steep, narrow, clogged with stones, and as full of sharp corners as a crosscut saw.
But when we looked down into the yard from the Bridge of Sighs we saw Ed Nabors and the carpenter arguing over a crosscut saw on the trap itself, and the blessed morning light coming up in glory to show us we could knock that ugly contraption to pieces and burn it.
There was a scar on his right shoulder, nearly hidden by a deep tan, that looked like it had been put there with a crosscut saw.
There was a scar on his right shoulder, nearly hidden by a deep tan, that looked like it had been put there with a crosscut saw….
Broadax and crosscut saw had eaten up the soul of the North Woods.