turkey-pen

This gray wolf is a savage creature and hides in the thick forests by day, slinking out at night to the nearest sheep corral or turkey-pen if he can find one unwatched by some faithful dog.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

We chose the fattest _guajalote_ of the turkey-pen, and in ten minutes he was simmering in the great earthen pot over the fire, having been cut into many pieces for convenience of cooking, and the women were busy grinding Indian corn to be patted out into tortillas.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

Besides hunting the wild turkey in the ways above mentioned, the old hunter frequently built what he termed a turkey-pen.

Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years). John Coram 1902

No doubt their departure had been watched by the boys from the thicket, and the unlucky drummer expected every moment to hear the alarm of a premature attack upon the turkey-pen, which would, unquestionably, prove the signal for his own immediate execution.

The Drummer Boy 1871

Then he saw that his comrades had frightened away the negro, beaten back the dog, and taken the turkey-pen by storm.

The Drummer Boy 1871

But, unlike the gentlemen sportsmen of Canada, who are said to wantonly destroy every turkey-pen they find, though built by

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860