souse vs sluice

souse and sluice both are nouns.

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

As verbs, sluice is a hyponym of souse; that is, sluice is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than souse:

Other hyponyms of souse include brine, bedraggle, draggle, bate, ret, flush.

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

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