the three-mile limit

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the three-mile limit - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]