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

“My father worked all day cutting wood with a crosscut saw,” Guy told me.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2019

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

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

Papa said it would grow hair on a crosscut saw.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls