crosscut vs scuff

crosscut

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. 

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

  • To cut across something. 

  • To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes. 

scuff

noun
  • A mark left by scuffing or scraping. 

  • A scurf; a scale. 

  • The back part of the neck; the scruff. 

verb
  • To hit lightly, to brush against. 

  • To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball. 

  • To scrape and roughen the surface of (shoes, etc.) 

  • To scrape the feet while walking. 

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