crosscut vs rime

crosscut

noun
  • An instance of filmic crosscutting. 

  • 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. 

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

  • To cut across something. 

  • To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes. 

rime

noun
  • A film or slimy coating. 

  • The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset. 

  • Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface. 

  • A step of a ladder; a rung. 

  • A coating or sheet of ice so formed. 

  • Rhyme. 

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century. 

  • A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. 

verb
  • To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost. 

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