yarn
noun
thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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The two travellers had yarned late in their camp, and the moon was getting low down through the mulga.
From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry