jacal
noun
(in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico) a hut with a thatched roof and walls consisting of thin stakes driven into the ground close together and plastered with mud.
jacals
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pluralof jacal.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Behind it were some brush corrals and a few scattered mud jacals, in which lived the help.
From Heart of the Sunset by Rex Ellingwood Beach
The native women stripped their jacals of every sacred picture, and hung them on the withered trees about their doors, where they hourly prayed to their patron saints.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams
On arriving at the rancho, the vaqueros scattered among the jacals of their amigos, while June and myself were welcomed at the casa primero.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams
A solid wall of water, he saw it sweeping down the valley, lapping up villages, ranches, jacals, with greedy tongues.
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Herman Whitaker
Then he took his hat and walked to one of the Mexican jacals.
From Heart of the West [Annotated] by Joseph E. Loewenstein
