turkey nest

noun

1. a small earth dam adjacent to, and higher than, a larger earth dam, to feed water by gravity to a cattle trough, etc

Example Sentences

"However, we also looked at precipitation and temperature data for the months leading up to nesting season, and at the overall likelihood that a turkey nest will successfully hatch at least one egg. And when we looked at both of those datasets, things get a lot less clear."

From Science Daily

"We found a turkey nest last year while doing a prescribed burn. We don't have a lot of data. We're not monitoring them. We don't think there are a lot of them, but they are still hanging on."

From Los Angeles Times

Every day, without going too far away from camp, she found new foods; watercress, mustard greens, wild turnips, wild onions, occasionally a turkey nest with eggs still edible, hollow trees where wild bees had stored honey, persimmons still astringent, but promising incredibly sweet and delicious flavor when frost struck them, chinquapin, a kind of chestnut, black walnuts.

From Project Gutenberg

"And did Tobe stay still behind the corn-crib and not come out to tell Aunt Amandy he was sorry he had ruined her turkey nest?" asked Rose Mary, bent on getting all the facts before offering judgment.

From Project Gutenberg