pulp
noun
the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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He had been pulping sweet roots, a pile of which lay dimly heaped in a corner behind him.
From England, My England by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence