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Jacal

Part of Speech: noun

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1. In Mexico and the south western United States, a kind of plastered house or hut, usually made by planting poles or timber in the geound, 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.

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Once more, before coming in sight of the solitary jacal, Uraga commands a halt. - "The Lone Ranche", Captain Mayne Reid.
Ten minutes later, and they would have found the jacal deserted; for Hamersley and Wilder had made up their minds to set off, taking the traitor along with them. - "The Lone Ranche", Captain Mayne Reid.
At the close of the year, if all goes well, the probation ends in a feast provided by the lover, who now becomes husband, and finally enters his wife's jacal as " consort- guest." - "The Truth About Woman", C. Gasquoine Hartley.

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