had been threshing
Past perfect progressive conjugation of thresh. There are other translations for this conjugation.

thresh

Association members had been threshing the wheat seed manually, a long and laborious process, according to Desta.
Las mujeres miembros de la asociación habían estado trillando el trigo manualmente, un proceso largo y laborioso, según Desta.
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