crosscut

• cross-cut

cross- +‎ cut

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɒskʌt/ (also, especially formerly IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɔːskʌt/)
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɔskʌt/, /ˈkɹɑskʌt/
• Hyphenation: cross‧cut
• Rhymes: -ʌt

crosscut (plural crosscuts)

1. A crosswise cut.
2. A shortcut.
3. An instance of filmic crosscutting.
4. A crosscut saw.
5. (mining) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.

crosscut (third-person singular simple present crosscuts, present participle crosscutting, simple past and past participle crosscut)

1. To cut across something.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart, / Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious, / Croscuts the liuer with internall smart, / And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart.

2. (film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.