were unbinding
- past progressive of unbind.
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Some women were unbinding sheaves, others were raking up the scattered straw and ears, and others again were gathering great armfuls of corn and handing them to the men to feed the machine.
From The Forged Coupon by Tolstoy, Leo, graf