Hold Limit is the limit the acft can be manouevred to from the DME including the turn.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, a DME limit of 14DME for a holding pattern means you stop the outbound leg at 14DME and commence your turn inbound, it does not mean you maintain your manouevring within 14DME. If that were the case, you could not hold at CCK, (keeping in mind that CCK is 10.9DME), but I suppose you could orbit!