Definition of Jaal
Ja*cal" (hä*käl"; 239), n.
[Amer. Sp., fr. Mex. xacalli.] 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.
Ja*cal" (hä*käl"; 239), n.
[Amer. Sp., fr. Mex. xacalli.] 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
JAffer's Canonical ALgebra
- The Free Online Computing Dictionary
- a wattle-and-mud hut common in Mexico and the south-western US
*1992: A few jacales of brush and mud with brush roofs and a pole corral where five scrubby horses with big heads stood looking solemnly at the horses passing in the road. — Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
Spanish
- (Mexico) hut; hovel; shack, jacal
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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