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noun - a hut
JACAL - The jacal (hkl; Mexican Spanish from Nahuatl xacalli contraction of xamitl calli; literally "hut") is an adobe-style housing structure historically f...
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Thatch-roofed hut |
Mexican hut |
Wattle and daub hut with a thatched roof in Mexico and SW USA |
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Aug 20 2017 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
Mar 22 2007 USA Today |
Sep 11 2006 Universal |
Apr 3 2002 Universal |
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A thatch-roofed hut made of wattle and daub found in Mexico and the southwest United States. |
(in Mexico and the south-western US) a thatched wattle-and-daub hut. |
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Jacal, Jalisco, MEXICO |
Jacal, Sonora, MEXICO |
Jacal, Michoacan de Ocampo, MEXICO |
Jacal, Casanare, COLOMBIA |
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The jacal (hkl; Mexican Spanish from Nahuatl xacalli contraction of xamitl calli; literally "hut") is an adobe-style housing structure historically found throughout parts of the southwestern United States and Mexico. This type of structure was employed by some Native people of the Americas prior to European colonization and was later employed by both Hispanic and Anglo settlers in Texas and elsewhere.Typically, a jacal consisted of slim close-set poles tied together and filled out with mud, clay and grasses. More sophisticated structures, such as those constructed by the Anasazi, incorporated adobe brickssun-baked mud and sandstone. * Jacal construction is similar to wattle and daub. However, the "wattle" portion of jacal structures consists mainly of vertical poles lashed together with cordage and sometimes supported by a pole framework, as in the pit-houses of the Basketmaker III period of the Ancestral Puebloan (a.k.a. Anasazi) Indians of the American Southwest. This is overlain with |