A fork of Rural Dictionary
(v): traveling/hiking through dense growth by cutting through branches and bushes;(n): it is also a term used by hikers to describe a very strenuous, obstacle ridden trail with brush, branches and/or bushes etc.
The trail was abandoned so we had to bushwack for three miles.
King Trail was seven miles long and only took three hours, but Prince trail was a bushwack and took 5 hours even though it was only 3 miles long