אַדֶּרֶת, cloak, cover. Gen. R. s. 63 (ref. to Gen. XXV, 25) כולו ראוי לא׳ every one (of the Roman people) fit for the purple cloak (may become an emperor).
אַדֶּרֶת, (homiletically, as if אִדֶּרֶת = ch. אִדְּרָא, אִדַּר) the threshing floor, the store of grains. Ib. כולו מפוזר ומפורד כא׳ entirely destined to be scattered (winnowed) like the grains, לזרותו וכ׳ [שעתיד] for the Lord will scatter him (Edom-Rome) like chaff &c. (ref. to Dan. II, 35).