All 20 Uses
docket
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Angela's Ashes
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- The man in the middle says he's giving Mam a docket to get a week's groceries at McGrath's shop on Parnell Street.†
Chpt 2 *
- There will be tea, sugar, flour, milk, butter and a separate docket for a bag of coal from Sutton's coal yard on the Dock Road.†
Chpt 2
- Mam wipes her face on the back of her sleeve and takes the docket.†
Chpt 2
- The woman behind the counter is pleasant to Mam in her American coat till Mam shows the St. Vincent de Paul docket.†
Chpt 2
- She says to Nora, Do you have a docket, too?†
Chpt 2
- No. I'm a friend helping this poor family with their first docket from the St. Vincent de Paul.†
Chpt 2
- Well, now, they're not on the docket.†
Chpt 2
- She gives Dad the docket for the coal down the Dock Road.†
Chpt 2
- The man says he'll give us a docket for a table, two chairs, and two beds.†
Chpt 3
- Mam says 'tis all right for her to be begging at the St. Vincent de Paul Society for a docket for food but he can't stick a few spuds in his pocket.†
Chpt 3
- He gives her a docket for groceries at McGrath's shop and another one for the butcher.†
Chpt 3
- No fancy items when you bring the docket from the St. Vincent de Paul.†
Chpt 3
- They wear shawls and they're respectful to Mr. Coffey and Mr. Kane because if they're not they might be told go away and come back next week when it's this minute you need the public assistance or a docket to see the doctor.†
Chpt 9
- A docket for the doctor, is it?†
Chpt 9
- Here's your docket to Dr. Troy.†
Chpt 9
- Here's the docket to get him in.†
Chpt 9
- Mr. Creagh gets his docket to see the doctor, the queue moves ahead and Mr. Kane is ready for Mam.†
Chpt 9
- It's their job to stack the bags on the float while Mr. Hannon goes to the office for the delivery dockets.†
Chpt 11
- If Mam gets a docket for a new one at the St. Vincent de Paul the old shirt is promoted to towel and hangs damp on the chair for months or Mam might use bits of it to patch other shirts.†
Chpt 12
- Mam gets the relief and the food dockets till someone informs on her and she's cut off from the Dispensary.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(docket) a list of things -- especially cases to be tried in court or items to discuss in a meeting
or less commonly: to add something to such a list -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, docket may be used in various ways to indicate identifying or summarizing something or the document so created -- such as:
- abstracting a document; or the resultant abstract
- identifying (possibly with very brief summary) a legal case; or the resultant writing
- labeling a package -- possibly with listed contents or instructions; or the resultant label