crosscut vs sickle

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. 

sickle

verb
  • To cut with a sickle. 

  • Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape. 

  • To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape. 

noun
  • Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock. 

  • An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops. 

adj
  • Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped. 

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