Jacal

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jacal \Ja*cal"\ (h[aum]*k[aum]l"; 239), n. [Amer. Sp., fr. Mex.
     xacalli.]
     In Mexico and the southwestern United States, a kind of
     plastered house or hut, usually made by planting poles or
     timber in the ground, 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.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  JACAL
       
          {JAffer's Canonical ALgebra}