carve up vs crosscut

carve up

verb
  • To cut into pieces. 

  • To divide or dismember, separate into parts 

crosscut

verb
  • To cut across something. 

  • To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain. 

  • To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes. 

noun
  • A crosswise cut. 

  • A shortcut. 

  • A crosscut saw. 

  • A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. 

  • An instance of filmic crosscutting. 

How often have the words carve up and crosscut occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )