Definition of "marge"

[…] And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,Where thou thyself dost air [...]

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]

So be it: there no shade can last⁠In that deep dawn behind the tomb,⁠But clear from marge to marge shall bloomThe eternal landscape of the past;A lifelong tract of time reveal’d; […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], Canto XLV, page 68

the long curved crestWhich swells out two leagues from the river marge.

1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."

1907, Robert W. Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

Or probably all meals coalesced with him in an orgy of thick bread-and-marge and an array of sauce-bottles.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 246

Had four bills and I bought me a car / Little red whip that I bought for my marge

2015, Stormzy (lyrics and music), “Shut Up” (track 15), in Gang Signs & Prayer, performed by Stormzy

I think about my family too. My dad and his failing heart. My marge and her church. I think about what they'll do once I'm gone. Think about the way out, the blue space above.

2018, Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City, London: Tinder Press, page unknown