crosscut

Example Sentences

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“I don’t like the crosscut, because you’re relying on someone else.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

He brought to the club the skills to work a crosscut saw and swing a pulaski - a wildland firefighter’s hand tool that’s been in use for more than a century.

From Washington Times • Oct. 28, 2018

Working with crosscut saws, shovels and a combination digging-cutting tool called a Pulaski, they sought to starve fires using similar methods to those of contemporary smoke jumpers.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2017

It features footage of an unnamed white rat crosscut with video of his granddaughter Amy when she was about a year old.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2016

Papa said it would grow hair on a crosscut saw.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls