crosscut vs snippet

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. 

snippet

verb
  • To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors. 

  • To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt. 

noun
  • A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample. 

  • A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase. 

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