marine league

American  

noun

1. a unit of 3 nautical miles (5.6 km).

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Example Sentences

The river, the bay, and the marine league along the shore, are all within the scope of this grant.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel

Thus in the absence of legislation by Congress, the States through their courts may punish offenses upon their navigable waters and upon the sea within one marine league of the shore.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel

Its orders, generally, were to defend from molestation by a foreign armed ship all vessels of the United States within the marine league, seaward, to which neutral jurisdiction was conceded by international law.

From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

All this time the two mates came steadily on, until the whole of the little fleet of boats was, by this time, not less than a marine league distant from the schooners.

From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore

They were still lying to, and fortunately for me, they were four or five miles off; outside of the charmed marine league.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael