sluice vs souse

sluice and souse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sluice	Yes	No	Yes	No
souse	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, souse is a hypernym of sluice; that is, souse is a word with a broader meaning than sluice:

Other hypernyms of sluice include douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop.

sluice (noun)	souse (noun)
conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate	the act of making something completely wet
	pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
	a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

sluice (verb)	souse (verb)
irrigate with water from a sluice	cook in a marinade
draw through a sluice	cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
transport in or send down a sluice	become drunk or drink excessively
pour as if from a sluice	immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate