As the tooth of a crosscut saw is filed away from both edges, it is necessary to make allowances when filing the first side, otherwise some of the teeth will come to a sharp point before the gumming is deep enough.
The teeth of a crosscutcircular saw point a little ahead.
The front or cutting edges of the teeth of a 24-inch crosscut circular saw for wood sawing should line to a point a little back from the center.
We are going on this trip far back into the virgin forest, and the trail is long and rough; how then can we transport an unwieldy crosscut saw and such fragile stuff as glass?
With the crosscutsaw we can throw the straight spruce trees almost anywhere we want them, and we drop them in places which will be convenient and save much handling.
The carpenter uses a ripsaw for one operation and a crosscut for another.
Strong and skillful hands, axes and a crosscut saw, had been the prime factors in erecting this habitation of the Isbels.
That trail was steep, narrow, clogged with stones, and as full of sharp corners as a crosscut saw.
No objection was made, for setting a trap is easier work than dragging a crosscut saw through a maple log.
By the way, working a crosscut saw isn't nearly so bad a job on the second day.
A time always comes when excuses and shifts fail, and at last there was nothing for it but to tackle the crosscut saw again.
I don't believe the stories they tell about two men cutting eight cords of wood in a day with a crosscut saw.
Working a crosscut saw in its natural position is bad enough, but working it on its side to cut through a standing tree--Oh, well, everything has to end some time.
I need exercise, and a session at the end of a crosscut saw would do me a world of good.
As for firewood, for which our crosscut saw was intended, pitch pine and yellow pine and spruce were all odorous and inflammable woods, but they did not make good firewood.
I thought the crosscut saw a wonderful tool to train a man, but it must require time.
The method of using a crosscut saw was for two men to take a stand opposite one another, with the log between.
Nielsen was a Norwegian, raised as a boy to use a crosscut saw; and as for me I was a connoisseur in camp-fires and a lover of them.
Hence we had brought a crosscut saw--a long one with two handles.
That experience determined me to stick to crosscut sawing every day.
It did not surprise me that next day I had to forget my crosscut saw exercise.
He had brought a good crosscut saw and it was not long until we had logs enough cut to put up the sides, about four feet high and logs for one end.
As we had a good crosscut saw, it did not take long to enlarge the doorway so that one could go in standing up, man fashion.
Mr. Goodsil and Mr. Vanater went back after more of the supplies, which included another good axe and a crosscut saw.
The driving of a crosscut through barren rock to reach an ore body is dead work; but the driving of a drift or level in a vein is either exploitation or mining.
If it be driven along an ore body, as a vein, it is properly called a vein adit; if it is driven across barren country to intercept presumed or known bodies, it is spoken of as a crosscut adit.
Then he and one of his comrades took up a big crosscut saw, while the other swung a gleaming axe.
It was fortunate that both could chop, for the men with the crosscut appeared in difficulties.
A lamp hung above him, and its light gleamed upon axes, drills, iron wedges, and crosscut saws, and made a chequered pattern of brightness and shadow on the rude log walls.
An early 17th-century two-man crosscut saw has been recovered almost intact.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crosscut" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bar; crisscross; cross; intersect; secant; transverse; traverse
