Formerly perhaps, to「use hands and pull to a standing, erect position, to pull and lengthen.」Glyph is also applied to「ramen」noodles that, when not the dried, instant variety, are formed by pulling and stretching the dough while folding the dough loops and doubling the count each time, until the individual dough strands are sufficiently thin for boiling in soup.
　Applies to a「pull and drag across」action, such as drawing a bow of horsehairs across violin strings.
　Modern terms such as「zipper」and「facelift」use this glyph. PULLING, DRAGGING, ELONGATING by the hair also means both ewe kid nabbing and to KIDNAP, as in grabbing a female by the hair and dragging her off to your cave, bandit lair, or pirate ship.「Kid nabbing」that later became「kidnapping」refers to stealing a prized young ewe or kid goat and running off with it under one's arm to screw with it.
　Some sources say that in old Chinese the meaning also is to「discharge from the genitals」(including diarrhea, defecating, and urinating) and coupling「standing erection」with「use one's hands to elongate by pulling」it not difficult to imagine yet another reference to the classic「use of two-handed wanker pull」innuendo as the likely formerly contrived meaning, with a modern extension in Chinese to「lesbian, female homosexual」but for reasons unexplained.
　Another apparent meaning in Japanese is to「crush underfoot, stepping on a worm」which seems confusing when considering the literal elements of「using talented hands to stand erect」but not so if we realize that there is no will or strength remaining to stand, much like a LIMP NOODLE, and using talented hands in that case maybe was likened to SQUEEZING A WORM until its guts spurt out one end—and, who hasn't done that?

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat
Japanese: to crush, to be crushed, to be squashed, to be discouraged
Unihan extended: pull, drag; seize, hold; lengthen
EDRDG: Latin; kidnap; crush