Why this word is great
SIEGECRAFT — [Noun] The art, science, and practice of conducting or resisting a military siege. From Middle English 'sege' (a seat, a military blockade) + the English combining form '-craft' (skill, art), with 'sege' deriving from Old French 'sege', 'siege', ultimately of uncertain origin, possibly from Vulgar Latin *sedicum 'seat', from Latin 'sedēre' (to sit). Unlike "poliorcetics" (which archives the classical diagrams and terminology) or "strategy" (which commands the grand theater of war), siegecraft is the gritty, pragmatic toil in the mud between them. It is the slow arithmetic of sappers in a zigzag trench, the patient geometry of a breaching battery, and the grim calculus of rations versus morale within the walls—a brutal contest where victory is engineered from the application of pressure until something, stone or spirit, breaks.