Crosscut

Origin

- + cut

Full definition of crosscut

Verb

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. To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes in a film

Noun

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.