[CROSS- 6.] trans. To cut across or transversely.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. x. 59. A … humour rancorous … That … Cros-cuts the liver with internall smart.
1655. Culpepper, etc. Riverius, II. iii. 67. In a Medium [in Optics] that is Convex and thick, the species are … broken, and as it were cross-cut.
1793. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 108. The quarry-men proceed to cross-cut the large flats.
1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4), I. 377. The plough … drawn across the field, and cross-cutting the uncut ribs of grass.
