batch
noun
a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together.
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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When I married, my husband had been batching it.
From Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History by Morris, Lucy Leavenworth Wilder