wad
noun
a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of tobacco.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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He was wadding his bunk with the hay, while the others looked on rather enviously.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service