docket: Meaning and Definition of

dock•et

1. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
1. an official memorandum or entry of proceedings in a legal cause.
2. a register of such entries.
3. any of various certificates or warrants giving the holder right to obtain, buy, or move goods that are controlled by the government, as a custom-house docket certifying duty has been paid.
3. the list of business to be transacted by a board, council, legislative assembly, or the like.
4. a writing on a letter or document stating its contents; any statement of particulars attached to a package, envelope, etc.; a label or ticket.

1. to enter in the docket of the court.
2. to make an abstract or summary of the heads of, as a document; abstract and enter in a book: judgments regularly docketed.
3. to endorse (a letter, document, etc.) with a memorandum.