docket

Meanings

1. A summary; a brief digest.
2. A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
3. A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
4. An agenda of things to be done.
5. A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
6. A receipt.

1. To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
2. To label a parcel, etc.
3. 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.
4. To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.