atwo

Middle English

Etymology

From on + two, already a phrase in Old English as on twā.

Adverb

atwo (not comparable)

In two; in twain; asunder.
Synonym: atwein
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoners Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 388-91:
  Fordronke, as he sat on his bench upright.
  Ther cam a privee theef men clepeth Deeth,
  That in this contree al the peple sleeth,
  And with his spere he smoot his herte atwo
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