Definition of "in two"

They carry a branch half a day, meaning to do great things with it, and then they snap it in two.

1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Kaa’s Hunting”, in The Jungle Book, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, page 47

[I]f you can cleave it in two with one stroke of your sword, I will give you my daughter to wife.

1900, Andrew Lang, “The Twin Brothers”, in The Grey Fairy Book

[S]outherners are expected to vote overwhelmingly to carve Africa's biggest country in two.

2011 January 10, Alex Perry, “Can Sudan Split Without Falling Apart?”, in Time, retrieved 23 July 2014