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planchette

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Noun
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plan=chette

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun planchette has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

planchetten. [F. See Planchet.].
  •  A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

planchette, n. a small usu. heart-shaped board on castors with a pencil that is supposedly caused to write spirit messages when a person's fingers rest lightly on it.

Etymology
F, dimin. of planche PLANK
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