atwo
English
Etymology
a- + two
Adverb
atwo (not comparable)
- (obsolete) In two; in twain; asunder.
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Pardoner's Tale: 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,
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Pardoner's Tale: 388-91.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for atwo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)