Cross"cut` (-kŭt`), v. t. To cut across or through; to intersect.

Cross"cut`, n. 1. A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.

2. (Mining) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.

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.