Staple

• tower → staple
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• steeple

• staple: wool; lock of wool

• staple: a u-shaped type of nail

• stable → the occurrence of born and stable in the same line inevitably allude to both Christ (who was supposedly born in a stable) and the Duke of Wellington (who famously remarked that being born in a stable did not necessarily make one a horse anymore than being born in Ireland made one an Irishman)

• Staple: basic food stuff - of other days- traditionally potato; distilled to potcheen a potent spirit

• steeple: recalls the plot of 'Bygmester Solness' by Henrik Ibsen, in which the eponymous protagonist builds a steeple and then falls off it to his death