Also tsaing. [translit. Burmese saing.] A species of wild ox (Bos sondaicus) found in Burma and the Malay archipelago; also called banteng.
1898. Zoologist, Jan., 1. Tsine are certainly kittle cattle.
1900. Pollok & Thom, Sports Burma, iii. 102. During my long residence in Lower Burma … I killed but five tsine. Ibid., Tsaing or Tsine. Ibid., 342. There were numerous signs of Bos sondaicus, the banting or tsine, as well as gaur about.
1903. Sat. Rev., 18 April, 481/1. The gaur, the gayal, the tsine or banting … might be acclimatised.
