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Definition of Jacal
1. n. 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.
Definition of Jacal
1. Noun. a wattle-and-mud hut common in Mexico and the south-western US ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jacal
1. a hut [n -ES or -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacal
Literary usage of Jacal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Real America in Romance by Edwin Markham (1910)
"In each wicked intrigue by which he tore his wretched A MEXICAN jacal country,
he was able to gain the sincere support of honest men against every evidence ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1884)
"2697 Sun Antonio 2722 jacal cle Don Tomas Gonzalez Vil- ... 0317 Water hole
nearest jacal,. . . 61107 Minor summit on range (road to ..."
3. Sketches from "Texas Siftings". by Alexander Edwin Sweet, John Armoy Knox (1882)
"A jacal is a den hardly fit for a jackal to live in. ... There is an opening in
the side of the jacal, used for the entrance and exit of the inhabitants. ..."
4. Geological & Mineral Studies in Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, Mexico: A Paper by Persifor Frazer (1884)
"1747 jacal d. San Isidro del Portrero, . 1822 Mouth of Portrero Canon, . ...
6317 Water hole nearest jacal,. . . 6367 Minor summit on range (road to ..."
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