Crosscut

1. To cut across or through; to intersect.
   

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
1. A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise.
2. A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.