The Collaborative International Dictionary
Three-mile \Three"-mile`\, a. Of or pertaining to three miles; as,
the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt (the
three-mile belt or three-mile zone) of three miles included in territorial waters (which see) of a state.
Usage examples of "the three-mile limit".
Many favored Gorth: He was in the full flush of strength and, after all, had good reason to challenge the Tai-Pan if there was truth to the rumor that Culum was poxed and that, knowing this, the Tai-Pan had sent Tess and Culum to sea with a captain who could marry them beyond the three-mile limit.
New quick-freeze techniques allowed boats to work halfway around the world and process their fish as they went, and this made the three-mile limit around most countries completely ineffectual.
That ship that Tony Stralla's rigged out as a floating casino outside the three-mile limit at Santa Monica is making three hundred grand a month - did you know that?
For the sake of completeness, I must also mention a third preposterous fable, according to which my grandfather floated out to sea like a piece of driftwood and was promptly fished out of the water by some fishermen from Bohnsack who, once outside the three-mile limit, handed him over to a Swedish deep-sea fisherman.
Near the three-mile limit, the boys spied a light racing toward them from a distance.
The crossing of the three-mile limit, even the entrance through the Pass, had been actions that might be argued about, disavowed.
No more refreshments now until they had passed the three-mile limit!
The Skipalong, believed to be a contact boat used by the Purple Shirt Mob for meeting contraband runners outside the three-mile limit.