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.

A hut or crude dwelling often made of brush and hides.

The jacal is an adobe style housing structure historically found throughout parts of the south-western United States and Mexico. The structure was employed by Native Americans prior to European colonization and was later employed by both Hispanic and Anglo settlers in Texas and elsewhere http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/Economy.htm.

The JACAL Project is a suite of programs, scripts, guidelines, protocols, documentation, diskettes, etc. that assist in quick, network based loads/builds of machines.