crosscut

poikittaisväylä

oikotie

leikata poikki A crosswise cut
A shortcut
An instance of filmic crosscutting
A crosscut saw
puhekieltä A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
To cut across something.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart, / Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious, / Croscuts the liuer with internall smart, / And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart.