Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thatch-roofed hut made of wattle and daub found in Mexico and the southwest United States.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native Mexican house or hut of which the walls are constructed of rows of thin vertical poles, covered and chinked with mud. Also applied to this method of building.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
wattle -and-mud hut common in Mexico and the south-western US
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This is the equivalent of the Mexican "jacal" construction, and consists of series of poles or logs planted vertically in the ground close to each other and plastered with mud either outside or on both sides.
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This method is known to the Mexicans as "jacal," and much used by them.
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La trabajadora social se detuvo frente a la puerta de un jacal, donde estaba sentada una muchacha.
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I also don't know what 'un jacal' means, it's not in my dictionary but then manicomio isn't in there either.
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I also don't know what 'un jacal' means, it's not in my dictionary but then manicomio isn't in there either.
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I also don't know what 'un jacal' means, it's not in my dictionary but then manicomio isn't in there either.
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I also don't know what 'un jacal' means, it's not in my dictionary but then manicomio isn't in there either.
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La trabajadora social se detuvo frente a la puerta de un jacal, donde estaba sentada una muchacha.
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La trabajadora social se detuvo frente a la puerta de un jacal, donde estaba sentada una muchacha.
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La trabajadora social se detuvo frente a la puerta de un jacal, donde estaba sentada una muchacha.
super-kawy commented on the word jacal
A thatch-roofed hut made of wattle and daub found in Mexico and the southwest United States.
September 22, 2009