jacal means A wattle-and-mud hut common in Mexico and the southwestern US.
jacal is pronounced /həˈkɑːl/.
Etymology
From Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli.
noun
- A wattle-and-mud hut common in Mexico and the southwestern US.“The leaning jacal of dried rush-withes and corn sheaves, bound to tall saplings thrust into the earth, roofed with yellowed maguey leaves flattened and overlapping like shingles, hunched drowsy and fragrant in the warmth of noonday.”