Usually means: Territorial waters extend three miles.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word three-mile limit:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. three-mile limit: Merriam-Webster
  2. three-mile limit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. three-mile limit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. three-mile limit, three-mile limit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. three-mile limit: Vocabulary.com
  6. three-mile limit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. three-mile limit: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. three-mile limit: Dictionary.com
  9. Three-mile limit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. three-mile limit: Rhymezone
  11. three-mile limit, the three-mile limit: FreeDictionary.org
  12. three-mile limit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. three-mile limit, Three-mile limit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See three-mile_limits as well.)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Three-mile limit)

noun:  The three-mile limit refers to a traditional and now largely obsolete conception of the international law of the seas which defined a country's territorial waters, for the purposes of trade regulation and exclusivity, as extending as far as the reach of cannons fired from land.


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