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

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

Papa said it would grow hair on a crosscut saw.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls