In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CROSSCUT
shortcut, cutoff, crosscut
(noun) a route shorter than the usual one
crosscut
(noun) a diagonal path
crosscut, cut across
(verb) cut using a diagonal line
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
crosscut (plural crosscuts)
A crosswise cut.
A shortcut.
An instance of filmic crosscutting.
A crosscut saw.
(mining) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
Verb
crosscut (third-person singular simple present crosscuts, present participle crosscutting, simple past and past participle crosscut)
To cut across something.
(film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
Source: Wiktionary
Cross"cut` (-kt`)
Definition: , v. t. To cut across or through; to intersect.
Cross"cut`, n.
1. A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
2. (Mining)
Definition: A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. Crosscut saw. (a) A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise. (b) A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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