1. Adapted for cross-cutting.
1828. Webster, Crosscut-saw, a saw managed by two men, one at each end for sawing large logs or trees across.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., Cross-cut Chisel, a chisel with a narrow edge and considerable depth, used in cutting a groove in iron.
1880. Blackw. Mag., Feb., 173. Large trees mostly sawn down by the cross-cut saw.
2. [CROSS- 8.] Cut across or transversely; having transverse cuts; esp. of a file, having two sets of teeth crossing each other diagonally.
1833. J. Holland, Manuf. Metal, II. 127. The files used by the whitesmith upon cold work are mostly of the cross-cut description.
1883. E. Pennell-Elmhirst, Cream Leicestersh., 135. A deep cross-cut fallow.
