To bring to a stop.
To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
To limp; move with a limping gait.
To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
To falter.
To stop marching.
To stop either temporarily or permanently.
To cause to discontinue.
To waver.
A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
In social interactions, to request a deferral of an invitation. To "take a rain check" is a polite way to turn down an engagement, usually with the implication that one is simply postponing it and another time might be acceptable.
To request or accept a rain check (an agreement from a merchant to honor a special offer, temporarily unavailable, after the expiration date).