'the three-mile limit' definitions:
Definition of 'the three-mile limit'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] [1913 Webster]