Timber Framers Guild Forums General Barns and Traditional Timberframing Pegs -- riven, sawn, drawn, turned, driven, etc?

Sussexoak; do you make any distinction between pins being used for attaching planks to framing verses holding a mortise and tenon together? I originally learned to say pegs but I have seen your distinction between pins and pegs before. Often in dictionaries, etc. the words pins and pegs are used interchangeably and dowel is sometimes used. It seems these defintiions are cloudy enough that if someone intends a specific meaning they should spell out there intent. I will try to say "pins".

Not to further confuse the use of the word pin, I have come across a discription of a housed dovetail joint being referred to as a pin-and-socket type of joint, in generic terms.

Don, I do not recall seeing boards pinned to framing but it was common to pin floor planks to joists and vertical wall planks to sills/girts/plates. One type of rafter foot is cut flat without a tenon and a 2" trunnel installed through the rafter foot into the tie beam.

Jim