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had been elbowing
  • past perfect progressive of elbow.

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It had become a greater market for trade, and the common people had been elbowing their way to the parts where only fine residences had once stood.

From The War Chief of the Six Nations A Chronicle of Joseph Brant by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)