Definition of: docket

(dok′it) noun
1. A condensed statement of a document, generally minuted upon the back of the same; summary; abstract.
2. Law An entry on the records of a court of the principal steps taken in a case; the registry of judgments of a court; also, the book in which such entries are made or such judgments registered.
3. A calendar of the cases to be called at any time of the court; a trial docket; hence, any calendar of business, as in an ecclesiastical assembly.
4. A tag or label attached to a parcel ready for delivery.
—v.t.
1. To place, as a cause or announcement, on a calendar or program to determine order of precedence or a routine of procedure.
2. To make an abstract of (a case) and keep for record.
3. To make a minute on the back of; endorse.
4. To attach a docket, tag, or label to. [Origin uncertain]