web
noun
something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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“Its joints faced the other way, and there was webbing between its fingers,” Vallgren writes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2015