carve vs crosscut

carve

verb
  • To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. 

  • To cut meat in order to serve it. 

  • To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work. 

  • To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path. 

  • To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. 

noun
  • The act of carving 

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 and crosscut occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )