Sentence:  Between the High Street and the shingle beach, divided from the rest of the town by a drawbridge, was Portsmouth Point, ‘the Wapping of Portsmouth', a picturesque, heterogeneous assemblage of taverns, liquor-shops, eating-houses, cook-shops, tailors, drapers, pawnbrokers, <WSD>watch-jobbers</WSD>, and trinket-merchants, backed by a warren of mean streets and alleys. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A person who repairs and maintains watches.