Sharpen his pillowscone

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  • 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 in Westminster Abbey beneath the coronation seat
  • 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"