paste
noun
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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"Those are the boxes the boys have been pasting," said Ethel Blue, picking up one of them.
From Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith