Jacal Definition

hä-käl
jacal, jacals
noun
A hut in Mexico and the Southwest, with walls of close-set wooden stakes plastered with mud and roofed with straw, rushes, etc.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Jacal

Noun

Singular:
jacal
Plural:
jacals

Origin of Jacal

  • American Spanish from Nahuatl xahcalli xamitl, xam-, xah- adobe calli house

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Spanish jacal

    From Wiktionary

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