crosscut vs halve

crosscut

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

  • To cut across something. 

  • 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. 

halve

verb
  • To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together. 

  • To make up half of. 

  • In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on. 

  • To reduce to half the original amount. 

  • To divide into two halves. 

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