planchette
IPA: pɫʌnʃˈɛt
noun
- A small plank.
- (spiritualism) A type of Ouija board. (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 interpreted as of oracular or supernatural import.)
- A plane table.
- (chiefly Canada) One of the round colored dots pressed into paper money, used to distinguish authentic currency from counterfeit currency.
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Examples of "planchette" in Sentences
- She then throws it into the box with the planchette.
- One example is in moving the planchette on an Ouija board.
- The most common use of the planchette is with a Ouija or spirit board.
- They are all unaware of the planchette moving around the board in its own.
- They are all unaware of the planchette moving around the board on its own.