Conversation:

I discovered today that the string used to suspend a conker, which is often an old bootlace or animal sinew is called a drangle. Strictly the drangle is measured from the conkerto first contact with the hand and does not include the bit within the conker, the knot at the end or the bit around the hand.
Drangle is an East Yorkshire term and there are many other, regional, names: swizzle, noose, floccle.