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Planchet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A flat piece of metal or coin.

Planchet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.

Planchette [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.