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  • noun Plural form of jacal.

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Examples

  • “Good thing your horse was the only one crapped in his car,” One-Eye said as they loped past the adobe jacals and wide-eyed naked children for the desert beyond.

    Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004

  • Slowly, they rode up the starlit street past the dark jacals.

    Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004

  • There was a stir of movement around the jacals, of women adding fresh fuel to the smoldering fires, dogs stretching and wagging their tails at the children wandering out of the brush-covered huts, and men hunching over the rekindled fires.

    The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

  • There was a stir of movement around the jacals, of women adding fresh fuel to the smoldering fires, dogs stretching and wagging their tails at the children wandering out of the brush-covered huts, and men hunching over the rekindled fires.

    The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

  • When Hannah looked back, Lutero and the lewd Apache dancer were leaving the circle, walking to one of the jacals.

    The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

  • The smoke from the burning, half-dismantled jacals was thick and choking.

    The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

  • The smoke from the burning, half-dismantled jacals was thick and choking.

    The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

  • When Hannah looked back, Lutero and the lewd Apache dancer were leaving the circle, walking to one of the jacals.

    The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

  • Some of the dead had been thrown onto the pyres of flaming jacals; others had been eviscerated or horribly mutilated, breasts removed from the women and genitals from the males.

    The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

  • Some of the dead had been thrown onto the pyres of flaming jacals; others had been eviscerated or horribly mutilated, breasts removed from the women and genitals from the males.

    The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

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