crosscut vs slit

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. 

slit

verb
  • To cut; to sever; to divide. 

  • To split into strips by lengthwise cuts. 

  • To cut a narrow opening. 

noun
  • A narrow cut or opening; a slot. 

  • The opening of the vagina. 

  • A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute. 

adj
  • Having a cut narrow opening 

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