truss
verb (used with object)
to tie, bind, or fasten.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Then there was trussing of harness and baggage and great carriage.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory