Sharpen his pillowscone

• Sharpen his pillowscone, tap up his bier → the third of four comments by the Four Old Men (×)

• pillow

• pillowstone: grave marker

• pillar stone: a pillar-shaped monument or memorial stone

• stone → associated in FW with Shaun

• Scone: a place in Scotland; the Stone of Scone was supposedly the Lia Fáil, or Stone of Destiny, a monolith taken from Tara which roared its approbation when the true High King of Ireland was crowned; it is now the Coronation Stone in Westminster Abbey
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• scone: a type of bun or cake

• Genesis 28.11: And he [Jacob] lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep"