docket

To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.

Noun

A summary; a brief digest.
A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
- And I think it’s probably fair to say that all of the more recent cases that are on the interim/emergency/whatever-we-want-to-call-it-these-days dockets, so they’re still in progress. - 2025 October 16, Ross Douthat,...
An agenda of things to be done.
A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
A receipt.

Uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.

To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
To label a parcel, etc.
- to docket goods
To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
- to docket letters and papers
- Whatever letters and papers you keep , docket and tie them up in their respective classes , so that you may instantly have recourse to any one - February 5 1750, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to...
To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
- judgments regularly docketed