crosscut

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: cross=cut

CIDE DICTIONARY

crosscut, v. t. 

 To cut across or through; to intersect.  [1913 Webster]

crosscut, n. 

•  A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.  [1913 Webster]
•  A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.  [1913 Webster]

Crosscut saw. (a) A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise. (b) A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.