Vocabulary : Plancher to Planer
Plancher : A floor of wood; also, a plank. ;; The under side of a cornice; a soffit. ;; To form of planks.Planchet : A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.
Planchette : A circumferentor. See Circumferentor. ;; 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.
Planching : of Planch ;; The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks.
Plane : Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane. ;; Any tree of the genus Platanus. ;; Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface. ;; A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature. ;; An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator. ;; A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate. ;; A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a
