crosscut
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“I don’t like the crosscut, because you’re relying on someone else.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
One day, her four-person crew hiked three miles into the woods toting a crosscut saw.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
Howe and Stokes both grew up in Portland, and neither had a background in timber cutting, let alone using crosscut saws - the 19th-century tool known by lumberjacks as a “misery whip.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 28, 2018
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
I wouldn’t have been more scared if someone had thrown a crosscut saw at me.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
But crosscutting concerns for months had made it impossible to gain traction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025
And yet, the series takes pains to connect them, thematically and visually, in the editing process, through crosscutting that links them throughout different periods of their lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
There’s the part at the end of the song that’s crosscutting between Harris and Evelyn, and Nathan Lane just floats this lovely falsetto at the end.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
Calm skies must also prevail because crosscutting winds called shear can rip holes in a nascent hurricane’s vortex.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2023
The cost of crosscutting is taken at $20 per foot and that of sinking the vertical shaft at $75 per foot.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
