Why this word is great
ZORNHAU — [Noun] A powerful, diagonally descending blow used in German longsword fencing. From German Zornhau, from Zorn ("wrath, fury") + Hau ("strike, blow"). Unlike "Oberhau" (a generic overhead strike, clinical and uninflected) or "Krumphau" (a deflecting, almost sly redirection of force), the Zornhau is fury given form—a strike that carries the weight of the swordsman’s body and the heat of his anger. It is the shudder of steel meeting steel at a brutal angle, the split-second before a blade bites into oak, the way a storm splits a tree trunk clean down its grain. Violence, when distilled, becomes geometry.