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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a triangular board supported on casters; when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Old French, diminutive of planche plank, from Latin planca Date: 1860 a small triangular or heart-shaped board supported on casters at two points and a vertical pencil at a third and believed to produce automatic writing when lightly touched by the fingers; also a similar board without a pencil

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Planchette Plan`chette", n. [F. See Planchet.] 1. A circumferentor. See Circumferentor. 2. 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.