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 "three-mile".
They would bob just outside the three-mile territorial limit and eavesdrop on defense installations along the east and west coasts of the U.
He is out of the glare immediately, dropping rollercoaster over the hill and sees before him a three-mile straightaway of cambered gray asphalt.
Those passengers who still retained a taste for scenery gravitated to the lounge around the waist of the ship, from whose three-mile circumference the starbow could be seen like a rainbow sash.
When we had watched long enough to see that Jake was getting along all right and working his signs very good, we loafed along again, allowing to strike the schoolhouse about recess time, which was a three-mile tramp.
But a three-mile run was just like morning coffee for a Marine, something to open the eyes.
Say the hydrofoil would complete a five-mile circuit at fifty knots, followed by a three-mile run-in to her target the length of the bay -'Seven and a half minutes!
The guards on duty who allowed them to escape are sent on a three-mile run with full kit, rifle and bayonet and then they're lined up for a bout of face-slapping, which is the worst disgrace that can happen to a Japanese soldier.
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.
Could bench-press four hundred pounds, had been married for a while and had a three-year-old daughter in Los Angeles, and had the all-time SEAL record for the three-mile ocean swim without fins.
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!