jacaln.
/həˈkɑːl/ A hut constructed of erect poles or stakes filled in with wattle and mud, a type common in Mexico and the south-western U.S.; an adobe house; also, the material or method used in building such a hut.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of
lonquhardc1480
hothouse1643
ajoupa1666
penthouse1683
pandal?1692
bark-hut1744
log-tent1748
log cabin1770
bush-hut1775
log-hut1778
yurt1780
isba1784
beach hut1806
whare1807
bough-house1811
pondok1815
grass hut1818
hartebeest house1818
leaf hut1818
gunyah1820
grass house1823
slab-and-bark hut1826
slab-and-shingle hut1826
slab whare1826
rondavel1829
bush-house1835
skerm1835
jacal1838
toldo1839
log-shanty1847
wurley1847
maloca1853
palm hut1853
whare1853
hutmenta1857
bush-shanty1857
benab1860
pondokkie1862
bothan1863
lanaia1869
hogan1872
tenta1873
beehive-hut1884
leaf shelter1886
Oklahoma1889
goondie1890
cabana1898
troolie hut1899
tukul1901
fale1902
banda1908
kya1909
hut1913
obi1913
Nissen hut1917
Nissen1919
basha1921
tourist cabin1928
bunkie1935
wanigan1937
Quonset hut1942
chickee1943
iron lung1943
Quonset1943
1838 ‘Texian’ Mexico v. Texas 249 It was a little Jacal, or cabin, built with large unburnt bricks, called adobes, in the language of the country.
1844 J. J. Webb Adventures in Santa Fe Trade (1931) 104 In a valley..where the herders had a temporary corrall and jacal made of bushes laid upon poles.
1844 J. J. Webb Adventures in Santa Fe Trade (1931) 105 The jacal was full, packed so thick it was impossible to count them.
1850 J. W. Audubon Western Jrnl. (1906) 230 We..saw a comfortable (for this country), log and jacal built house.
1854 J. R. Bartlett Personal Narr. Explor. & Incidents II. xxxvii. 392 The barracks at Fort Fillmore are as yet quite rude, being mere jackals.
1897 16th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1894–5 108 This method is known to the Mexicans as ‘jacal’, and much used by them. It consists of a row of sticks or thin poles set vertically in the ground and heavily plastered with mud.
1900 R. B. Cunninghame Graham 13 Stories 127 A straw-thatched jacal.
1947 Chicago Sun Bk. Week 8 June 2/2 In the back alleys..are to be found..primitive jacals.
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