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JACAL
Etymology
Noun
jacal (plural jacals or jacales)
A wattle-and-mud hut common in Mexico and the south-western US.
Source: Wiktionary
Ja*cal" (hä*käl"; 239), n. [Amer. Sp., fr. Mex. xacalli.]
Definition: In Mexico and the southwestern United States, a kind of plastered house or hut, usually made by planting poles or timber in the ground, filling in between them with screen work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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